AustLit logo
image of person or book cover 1678654278333026128.jpg
Barry Kosky, Melbourne Theatre Company image.
Barrie Kosky Barrie Kosky i(A60341 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Australian theatre director and composer Barrie Kosky was artistic director of the Gilgul Jewish Theatre Company in Melbourne and was the artistic director of the 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts. In 2001 he was appointed co-artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Theatre in Vienna. He has become an internationally respected theatre director in demand in the great opera houses of Berlin and Vienna. Kosky's direction of 'Women of Troy' won the awards for Best Director and Best Mainstream Production, Sydney Theatre Awards, 2008.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

The Lost Echo 2006 single work drama

'The Lost Echo' is based on the mythological stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is 'a kaleidoscope of music, text, dance, and image using the music of Cole Porter, John Dowland and Franz Schubert.'

The twelve stories told are those of :
1. Phaethon: A boy whose search for his father leads him to incineration.
2. Callisto: A virgin girl who is seduced by a god, changed into a bear and transformed into a star.
3. Actaeon: A boy who is transformed into a stag as punishment for voyeurism and is eventually ripped apart by his own dogs.
4. Mestra: A girl whose father eats himself to death.
5. Myrrha: A girl whose incestuous lust for her father leads her to misery and transformation into a tree
6. Arachne: A girl whose pride, arrogance and insight leads her to be changed into a spider
7. Salmacis: A woman whose obsession for a younger man leads them both to be transformed into water.
8. Philomela: A girl who enacts devastating revenge on her rapist by feeding him his own child.
9. Semele: A girl who sleeps with a god and is obliterated by the gods.
10. Pentheus: A boy whose inner torment results in him being ripped into pieces by his own mother.
11. Narcissus and Echo :A boy who falls in love with his own reflection and a girl who vanishes into her own voice.
12. Orpheus and Euridice: A man who loses the woman he loves - twice.

2007 winner Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best New Australian Work Nominated for the 2006 Sydney Theatre Company production.
2007 winner Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best Play Nominated for the 2006 Sydney Theatre Company production.
2006 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards Best Mainstage Production Nominated for the 2006 Sydney Theatre Company production.
Last amended 18 May 2017 08:28:12
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X