ROSALBA CLEMENTE

Rosalba Clemente was the Artistic Director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia for four years retiring at the end of 2004. During her tenure she directed The Club (which toured nationally), Don's Party, Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature Of Love, Carrying Light, Emma - celebrazione!, Blithe Spirit, How I Learned to Drive, House Among the Stars and Holy Day for the Company. Other directing work includes a very successful production of Emma for Belvoir Street and Playbox and the highly acclaimed season of My Vicious Angel, a new work by Christine Evans, for Vitalstatistix - National Women's Theatre.

Rosalba's directing career began with Heartbreak Kid for Theatre '62, The Gay Divorcee for Vitalstatistix, Belvoir Street and the Athenaeum, Mistress for Anthill, A Little Like Drowning for Teatro di Migma and State Theatre South Australia and Radiance for Belvoir Street. She was assistant director to Neil Armfield on Death and the Maiden for Sydney Theatre Company (including the Australian tour), and to Antonio Vargas for L' Amore Brujo. In 1992 she was nominated for Best Freelance Director in the Sydney Critics' Circle Award. Rosalba has served on the NSW Ministry of the Arts and was artistic counsel and board member to Company B Belvoir for three years. Rosalba studied acting at NIDA as a recipient of the Adele Koh Scholarship and has since performed nationally for many companies including Company B Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre South Australia, Griffin Theatre, New Stages, Entr'acte, Crossroads, Bay Street and the Universal. Rosalba has also performed a one-woman show, Spooltime, especially written for her by Alana Valentine. Rosalba was recently appointed Chair of the Theatre Board at The Australia Council.

HELLY'S MAGIC CUP

There are a hundred fire breathing dragons and a million bees that will sting you to death and a red beast that will squish your dead body in its mouth like strawberries!  8 year Loo D'oro is in touch with the grassiest of grass roots - sure most vegetation is dead out where they live but he's got a party line to the insects and they know what's coming..... But his 11 year old sister Helly might just know more. She dreams poetry.  A great Knight must return or this world will burn. Can her dreams save their sick dad and dying farm? As dreams and reality begin to collide trees come to life, dead animals speak and Helly and Loo must face matters of life, death, insect revolutions and the slaying of the red beast!

Hilarious, touching, charming and inventive this is a play for ages eight to one hundred and eight!

Characters:

Chorus - played variously by all of the above. Helly's dream chorus, Loo's insect chorus, drought chorus, wind, bush animals, chickens and various voices of the land.

- It is important that the insects are properly accented and speak in high chipmunk.

- Helly's Magic Cup will have its first production in 2008 with Windmill and the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust.

- Helly's Magic Cup is the Winner of the Rodney Seaborn Award for 2008.

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