Production still for "Avast/Avast II". L-R: Dylan Young, Thomas Henning, Mark Leonard Winter. Photographer: Jeff Busby
Avast and Avast II: The Welshman Cometh
By The Black Lung Theatre
12 November 2008 – 16 December 2008 Tower Theatre
Malthouse Theatre, Black Lung,
Devised Theatre Collaboration
From the North, he glimpsed a great column of dust rising. Again, the stink of carrion fresh from battle had saturated his clothes, a stench that would remain in them ever after. He was bone tired, sick of war, sick of its futility, sick of its pointless waste. It surrounded him. The screams and moans of the dead and the dying rang in his ears; their blood stained his mail and tunic. Nothing could tear his eyes, his mind away - until now! Yes, The Black Lung has come roaring from the bloodstained fields of Asgard, screeching in on the backs of harpies, to hurl blood and semen everywhere!!
"HIDEOUSLY MARRED BY IMMATURITY ..."
— The Age
Cast
Creatives
Stage Manager, Stage Manager
Musician, Sound Designer, Musician, Sound Designer
Lighting Designer, Lighting Designer
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to The Helen MacPherson Smith Trust and Myer Foundation for their generous support of the Tower Theatre Program.