Previous Work
BBT is proud to have staged over 20 productions at some of Australia’s most exciting venues, including Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Meat Market Stables, Melbourne and Mortuary Station, Sydney.
Check out a selection of BBT’s recent productions below…
Track Works
Track Works invited audiences to step inside the historic Mortuary Station and become immersed in the story of five commuters grappling with the trials and tribulations of their daily commute. Track Works weaved together arias from the world’s greatest operas and arranged them into an original and contemporary story.
Set against the enchanting architectural backdrop of Mortuary Station, Track Works confronted the great equalising power of Sydney’s public transport system.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director and Co-Creator: Clemence Williams
Co-Creator and Dramaturg: Thomas De Angelis
Cast: Anastasia Gall, Elizabeth Harper, Michael Kaufmann, Sophie Mohler, Eden Shifroni
Music Director: Josephine Gibson
Associate Director: Emma Whitehead
Production Designer: Emma White
Lighting Designer: Morgan Moroney
Sound Designer: Daniel Herten
Stage Manager: Pip Haupt
Assistant Stage Manager: Alicia Badger
Repetiteur: Stacey Yang
Producer: Isabella Debbage
Producer: Samuel Boneham
Performed at Mortuary Station, Sydney.
Spewy
Al loves Newcastle. It’s the city he was raised in, and he’s got no idea why you’d choose to live anywhere else.
Nic hates Newcastle. But after having her life chewed up and spat out by Sydney, she’s had to catch the express train right back up the coast, tail between her legs.
Nearly ten years after graduating from the same high school, Al and Nic meet again by chance at the pub. So begins a time-old tale of ‘will they, won’t they?’... except this story’s got way better beaches than most.
Newcastle is a city that’s got a strange power over the people who grow up there. It makes us proud, free, lonely, trapped. By some twist of Novocastrian fate, Al and Nic find themselves in a complicated love-hate situationship with each other and the hometown they share.
So which one is it? “God’s Country” or “Spewcastle”?
Spewy is the Novocastrian rom-com that shoves the steel city under the spotlight.
Written by Ang Collins
Directed by Adam Deusien
Dramaturg Thomas De Angelis
Featuring Madelaine Osborn and Barnaby Donaghy
Sound Design and Composition Sarah Sykes
Stage Manager Roni Wilkinson
Performed at EARP Distilling Co. Carrington, Newcastle
The Italians
It’s la dolce vita for Joe right now. He’s got a successful business, handsome boyfriend and wealthy AF future in-laws. He’s clawed his way out of the working class and he’s got freshly steamed linen trousers to prove it. But his plans for full-blown assimilation take a nasty turn when Joe’s estranged cousin drops by and exposes an enormous family secret. Suddenly, Joe’s on a mission out to South-Western Sydney, to the Italian-Australian heartland and the place where his family’s story began.
Written by Danny Ball
Original Concept by Danny Ball and Thomas De Angelis
Directed by Riley Spadaro
Featuring Danny Ball, Philip D’ambrosio, Nic English, Deborah Galanos, Amy Hack, Emma O’Sullivan, Brandon Scane, Tony Poli
Production Design Grace Deacon
Lighting Design Phoebe Pilcher
Sound Design and Composition Luke D’Ambrosio
Movement Director/Choreographer Amy Hack
Dramaturg Thomas De Angelis
Stage Manager Elizabeth Guy
Assistant Stage Manager Cameron Hill-Harrison
Performed at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir 25A
The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool
The House At Boundary Road, Liverpool places the Australian immigrant experience centre stage and brought together an expansive cast and creative team numbering over 25. The play was written collaboratively by four different playwrights, and follows the trajectory of a single house in Liverpool, Western Sydney, over the course of five decades.
Written by Violette Ayad, Thomas De Angelis, Chika Ikogwe, Jordan Shea
Directed by Jessica Arthur
Assistant Director Tasnim Hossain
Featuring Violette Ayad, Henrietta Amevor, Monique Calarco, Jemwel Danao, Nancy Denis, Felino Dolloso, Adam Di Martino, Jessica Phoebe Hanna, Mark Paguio, David Soncin, Angela Sullen, Mike Ugo
Production Design Keerthi Subramanyam
Lighting Design Kate Baldwin
Sound Design Clemence Williams
Stage Manager Saint Clair
Assistant Stage Manager Beatrix Brady
Performed at The Old 505 Theatre, Newtown
Disparate Scenes for Millennial Dreams
“This is undoubtedly a high-end, luxury piece of theatre, which wasteful millennials are certain to spend their money on instead of saving for their first home. Not quite as good as smashed avocado on wholegrain.” -Bernard Salt
A triple bill of brand new short plays commissioned for Meat Market’s Stables. This semi-immersive event dropped audiences into three unique works which confront the anxieties, frustrations and insecurities of the “millennial” generation.
Written by Ang Collins, Lewis Treston and Fiona Spitzkowsky
Directed by Benjamin Sheen
Starring Dana McMillan, Conor Leach, Adam Garner, Toby Blome, Clarisse Bonello and Heather Riley
Producer and Dramaturg Thomas DeAngelis
Production Manager Sian Halloran
Set and Costume Designer Elia Bosshard
Sound Designer/Composer Jess Keeffe
Lighting Designer Marty Shlansky
Additional Music Composition CryClub
Promotional Photography Sarah Walker
Performed at Meat Market’s Stables, Melbourne
Homesick
Homesick is the story of three generations of women colliding in a single household. Sam's returned from New York, her mother Rachel is trying to keep her head above water, and her grandmother Eadie is slowly losing her marbles.
Written by Sally Alrich-Smythe
Directed by Claudia Osborne
Featuring Annie Byron, Deborah Galanos, Eliza Scott, Alex Stylianou
Production Design Emma White
Sound Design Angus Mills
Video Design Lucca Barone Peters
Stage Manager Saint Clair
Performed at The Old 505, Newtown
Chorus: Agamemnon
Agamemnon is a pop musician with a cult following and a deep secret. As she ends her sell-out world tour and heads back to the house that used to be her home, memories that she's tried so hard to keep buried begin to breathe again, so vivid she could die. And she very well might.
Written by Ang Collins
Directed by Clemence Williams
Dramaturgy by Thomas De Angelis
Featuring Jack Crumlin, Madelaine Osborn, Nicole Pingon, Ella Prince, Eliza Scott, Chemon Theys
Production Design Emma White
Lighting Design Veronique Bennett
Sound Design Clemence Williams
AV Director Sarah Hadley
Stage Manager Saint Clair
Performed at The Old Fitz
Chamber Pot Opera
The international smash-hit sensation—Chamber Pot Opera is an opera performed in a public bathroom and tells the story of three very different women meeting for the first time.
Co-created by Keiren Brandt-Sawdy, Thomas De Angelis and Clemence Williams
Directed by Clemence Williams
Featuring Sally Alrich-Smythe, Britt Lewis and Jessica Westcott
Music Director Darci Gayford
Performed at Level 2 Ladies Powder Room, Queen Victoria Building; Women’s Bathroom, Picadilly Cinemas, Adelaide; Women’s Lavaratories, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, UK; Women’s Washroom, Hilton Hotel, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Other Side of 25
Writer/performer Becca Hurd tells the story of Amory, a twenty-something who reluctantly agrees to become the surrogate for her sister's baby.
Written by Becca Hurd
Directed by Ellen Wiltshire
Dramaturgy by Chris Edwards
Original Music by Becca Hurd and Sally Alrich-Smythe
Featuring Becca Hurd
Production Design Emma White
Lighting Design Kelsey Lee
Stage Manager Caroline McAllister
Performed at The Old 505, Newtown
Unfinished Works
Delivering an incisive portrayal of contemporary Sydney and its culture, Unfinished Works explores the sacrifices we make in the pursuit of our life’s work.
Written by Thomas De Angelis
Directed by Clemence Williams
Featuring Deborah Galanos, Lucy Goleby, Contessa Treffone, Rhett Walton
Production Design Charlie Davis
Stage Manager Jen Parsonage
Performed at The Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre