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Disclosed Exposes Timeless Issues

Theatre Review

By Nick Tantaro

Australia’s convicts are now recognised as an important contributing factor to the pioneering spirit that built our great nation. However, while the majority of convicts went on to lead productive lives, there’s no denying the horror that also was also a part of dealing with a huge influx of felons.

During our penal history, just like today, there were continuing experiments on how best to “rehabilitate criminals”. One such innovation was the Separate Prison at Port Arthur where convicts were placed in individual cells and forbidden to speak. Seen as a more humane treatment than physical punishment, the system was fiercely championed by Commandant Boyd, despite proving to be a failure in England. Of course, we know today that covert abuse can be just as severe or worse than physical abuse.

It is interesting then that Caitlin Richardson’s Disclosed conjures an almost gentle and dreamlike atmosphere within the prison setup.

That’s not to say that the play doesn’t evoke the brutality of the situation but by intermingling music, myth and eloquent convicts, the play often crosses from the temporal to the ethereal plane. Told in three short stories, the play uses true episodes as a basis to explore the effect of isolation, especially on the mind.

Director Peter Hammond clearly understands the complexity of such an explorationand keeps the focus on performance.

While the stories could have gained from greater texturing, performance are generally solid in all the stories. The Clock Stopped tale is the strongest with Kieran Phillips, Antonio Zanchetta and Leigh Oswin drawing us into and out of a surreal world with their fine portrayals.

Traditional singer Danny Spooner, like Eric Bogle, embodies the Australian voice born of the old country asd, as such, his singing fits well as a bridging device between the convict stories./

The set, while functional, is slightly distracting and the soundscape almost seems unnecessary.

Congratulations to Three River Theatre for producing another original Tasmanian play.

Richardson’s play, well-grounded in history, promotes deeper thinking and discussion – particularly as the issues it exposes are as relevant today as they were in our penal beginnings.

Disclosed can be seen at the Earl Arts Centre on Saturday at 4pm and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.

Welman Street Film Society

List of Films

Title	Director	Country
1. The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	USA
2. In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	USA
3. Padre Padrone	Taviani Bros.	Italy
4.Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	UK/USA
5. La Strada	Federico Fellini	Italy
6. La Regle Du Jeu	Jean Renoir	France
7. Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy
8. Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	USA
9. The Passenger	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
10. The Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
11. My Man Godfrey	Gregory LaCava	USA
12. Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	UK
13. Blazing Saddles	Mel Brooks	USA
14. Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders	Germany/France
15. Nashville	Robert Altman	USA
16. Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	USA
17. The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy
18. King of Hearts	Philippe de Broca	France
19.M. Hulot’s Holiday	Jacques Tati	France
20. Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	France
21.All About Eve	Joseph Mankiewicz	USA
22.Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	USA
23.Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
24.The Trial	Orson Welles	France
25.Network	Sidney Lumet	USA

*First Welman St Film Festival*	*Director Theme - France*
26. Le Corbeau	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
27. Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
28. Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France

29. Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand	UK
30.Breathless	Jean Luc Goddard	France
31.The Bedford Incident	James B. Harris	USA
32.Tabu	Miguel Gomes	Portugal
33. Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden


*Second Welman St Film Festival*	*National Theme - Italy*
34. Journey in Italy	Roberto Rosselini	Italy
35. Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
36. Marriage Italian Style	Vittorio de Sica	Italy

37. North By Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	USA

*Third Welman St Film Festival*	*Genre Theme- International Heist/Caper Films of the 1950s*
38. The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	USA
39. The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	UK
40. Rififi	Jules Dassin	France
41. Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	Italy

42. Death in Venice	Luchino Visconti	Italy
43. Don't Look Now	Nicholas Roeg	UK/Italy
44. The Roundup	Miklos Janczo	Hungary
45. Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	USA
46. Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	USA
47. Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson	USA
48. A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	France
49. Shane	George Stevens	USA
50. The Angels' Share	Ken Loach	UK
51. A Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	USA
52. Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
53. Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Canada
54. Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan
55. Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	USA
56. Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
57. Broken Circle Breakdown	Felix Van Groeningen	Belgium
58. Locke	Steven Knight	UK
59. Silent Wedding	Horatiu Malaele	Romania
60. Annie Hall	Woody Allen	USA
61. Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	USA
62. The Olive Tree	Iciar Bollain	Spain
63. Places in the Heart	Robert Benton	USA
64. Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg	Australia
65. The Hustler	Robert Rossen	USA
66. Elektra	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece
67. Gaslight	George Cukor	USA
68. The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	New Zealand
69. Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	USA
70. Burn	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy
71. Dean Spanley	Toa Fraser	UK/NZ
72. In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray	USA
73. Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	USA
74. Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy

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