The Gifts of the Furies 2010

This is a selection of photos taken by Christine Hansen at one of the final rehearsal for the Gifts of the Furies at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, September 2010.

 

Some of the Chorus of the Many and sleeping Storyteller ...

Judith Clingan as Ethos --- also near the beginning when Chorus of the Many sing from the Otherworld and the Chorus of Citizens and Storyteller are asleep

The citizens asleep

Storyteller Glenda Cloughley, and Catherine Ross playing dulcimer in the orchestra behind

 

The Chorus of Citizens

 

percussion and cello

Our percussionist Graham Eagar and cellist Helen Way

percussion and cello

Our cantor, Nikolai Blaskow, musing...

stagehands

Check the stagehands!

stagehands

Our beautiful ghost,, Cherie Dryvurgh

Ethos-Storyteller

Ethos and Storyteller in duet

Ethos-Storyteller

Our musical director, Johanna McBride, at work...

Ethos-Storyteller

King George and the Furies

Ethos-Storyteller

The Furies of Earth at the entrance of the Australian Senate

Ethos-Storyteller

The Furies in full flight with their glorious big voices! (Chorus of Citizens scared behind them watching!)

Ethos-Storyteller

Processional way from King's Hall to the House of Representatives, with The Chorus of the Many humming and singing

Ethos-Storyteller

The Furies present the case for the Earth during the Trial in the House of Representatives