\n Salt Waves Fresh

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\n \n Date: \n 21 NOV 2025\n Time: \n 6:30 PM to\n 8:30 PM\n \n \n Location:\n\n Nexus Theatre (351.1 .003) \n \n \n Add to Calendar:\n \n \n

\n Salt Waves Fresh is a free staged reading of William Shakespeare’s beloved c omedy Twelfth Night\, newly washed ashore on the Australian coast after a cyclone. It blends Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love\, disguise\, and mistaken identity with climate chaos\, weaving together Jacobean theatre e lements (live music\, candlelight) and contemporary contexts.

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Adapted by acclaimed eco-theatre practitioner Professor Gretchen Minton (Montana Stat e University)\, this version reframes Shakespeare's classic through the le ns of contemporary climate crisis. In this script-in-hand staged reading\, Murdoch actors and musicians conjure tempests of both weather and emotion .

This reading offers audiences a unique opportunity to see how cl assic drama can illuminate urgent environmental issues while celebrating t he power of performance to foster ecological awareness. It showcases the i nnovative work emerging from Murdoch University&rsquo\;s Theatre and Creat ive Production program\, and is suitable for all audiences.

DIRECTOR: Alys Daroy
CAST: Berlin Brown lee\, Sarah Courtis\, Lauren Daniels\, Shane Keefe\, Emma Patten\, Jasper Prestage\, Nik Sequeira\, Channing Whitworth
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MUSIC: Sarah Co urtis\, Jasper Prestage\, Oliver Poser
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Be part of th is coastal reimagining of one of Shakespeare&rsquo\;s most playful\, poeti c comedies!

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