Well, it’s 2010 and we’re back in action, racing toward a huge year. Already, version 1.0’s Company Artists Kym Vercoe and Sean Bacon are in creative development at Sydney University’s Rex Cramphorn Studio for a new project seven kilometres northeast, a performance about geography, tourism and atrocity to premiere as part of Tamarama Rock Surfers’ 2010 Season at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in September/October. Stay tuned for more details. Next week, Company Artists Yana Taylor and Deborah Pollard go into the studio at Urban Theatre Projects for some R&D on the first installment of our Blue Sky program for 2010, investigating politics, media and memory.

But that’s only just the beginning…

THIS KIND OF RUCKUS: ADELAIDE AND LISMORE
In February, version 1.0 takes THIS KIND OF RUCKUS - an alcohol-fuelled, techno-beat driven work about sexual violence in contemporary culture - to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. It’s our first ever visit to Adelaide, and we’re very excited to have been selected as part of the prestigious Spotlight program at the Australian Performing Arts Market.

THIS KIND OF RUCKUS plays at the Norwood Concert Hall, 175 The Parade, Norwood, from February 20-26. Bookings online at http://bit.ly/7goRj8 or by phone on 1300 FRINGE (374 643).

Described as “a work of peculiar beauty” by RealTime, and “poignant and unsettling” by The Daily Telegraph, this will surely be a highlight of the Festival, so don’t miss out.

For more about THIS KIND OF RUCKUS see online: http://www.versiononepointzero.com/index.php/projects/this_kind_of_ruckus/

After Adelaide, THIS KIND OF RUCKUS travels to NORPA for one show only at Lismore City Hall on March 12. For more details see: http://www.norpa.org.au

And if you wanted to read about how THIS KIND OF RUCKUS fits within contemporary Australian documentary theatre, the show features in a major survey article by Rosemary Neill in The Australian. Read it online here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/the-real-thing/story-e6frg8n6-1225816326732

AWARD NOMINATION FOR THE BOUGAINVILLE PHOTOPLAY PROJECT
We’re extremely excited also that The Bougainville Photoplay Project has been nominated as ‘Best Independent Production’ in the 2009 Sydney Theatre Awards. The award ceremony is on next Monday 18th January, and we’ll be there with bells on! For more about the Sydney Theatre Awards, see http://www.sydneytheatreawards.com/

A FEW CONGRATULATIONS
And finally, some congratulations are in order. Firstly, congratulations to version 1.0 Company Artist Danielle Antaki, who has just been appointed as Artistic Director of Powerhouse Youth Theatre. And secondly, congratulations to version 1.0 Company Artist Stephen Klinder. Stephen and his wife Jacinta have just had a baby boy, Gryffin. Welcome to the tribe Gryffin!