Performances

The 8 Hour Day, Goldfields' Management and Anti-Transportation: Reform by Protest in Early Melbourne
Performance

March 25, 2006, New Ballroom, Trades Hall
April 21 2006, Celtic Club

Explore Melbourne's early impulse for reform through narration, readings and songs of the times.

Written by Gael Shannon. Cast includes Danny Spooner, Duncan Brown, Beth Quin, Dennis O'Keefe, Dave de Hugard and the Victorian Trade Union Choir.

For more information: (03) 5348 2201 / (03) 9439 1853 or http://home.vicnet.net.au/~vtuc

We Built This City
Melbourne Workers Theatre

April 26 to May 6, 2006

Construction and building workers' greatest skills and experiences will be crafted and choreographed to build a roving rock concert that celebrates the great strength and skill of builders in Melbourne who daily put their lives on the line and rightly proclaim 'We built this city!'

Directed by Donna Jackson, 'We Built This City' will feature a cast of unionists to form an industrial percussion ensemble coordinated by Mark Grunden, a rock band with anthems by Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors), the Victorian Trade Union Choir, and a dance of heavy machinery set to a massive line-up of electric guitars. 'We Built This City' will be staged at the Spotswood Pumping Station, Scienceworks.

For more information: (03) 9326 6667 or www.melbourneworkerstheatre.com

Working
Union House Theatre,
MU Student Union Ltd, University of Melbourne

May 11 to 20, 2006

'Working' - the musical, based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, paints a vivid portrait of the men and women often taken for granted: the schoolteacher, the parking lot attendant, the waitress, the truck driver, the fireman, the housewife, to name a few.

Performed by a large cast of students of the University of Melbourne at the Union Theatre and directed by Susie Dee, 'Working' is one of the most accessible musicals of our time giving heart and voice to the worker in our society.

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For more information: (03) 8344 6964 or www.union.unimelb.edu.au/theatre