The Golem of Ruckers Hill

The Golem of Ruckers Hill
At the Northcote town hall
Already over (if you missed it, yah sux to you)
Platform Youth Arts


Well, let’s start with title, I love the title. I can’t help but hear a croaky old woman from the forest around a camp fire going “der GOLem? You want to know about der GOLem?”
Director, devisor, I don’t know what the hell you call Michael Camileri? Sorta puppets, sorta acting, kind what? Following the vertigo inducing way Camileri’s imagination seems to leap about the place I think may have given me whiplash.
Before I get to far into this let me point out that all that was intended to be positive. There’s a boy who knows something about something.
The roving performance thing was handled really well and really simply by following the dude with the bell, which freed the audience up from thinking about moving about, enough to allow Camileri’s mind to bubble out at them, literally in glowing white bubbles.
I dunno how he does it. Third eye maybe.
Cramped conditions though, thought I was gonna have to squash in next to a certain actor I’m slightly freaked out by.
Script wise, I wasn’t too fussed to start with really. But somewhere about half way through I noticed it wasn’t important. When you see what they do in the “mayors room” as the golem looses control and starts killing people, you’ll see what I mean. But, I gotta say, it took three guys to come up with that script? Three talented guys I might add. Something in that process isn’t working out.
But like I said, when you’re in the mouth of the golem you so aren’t gonna care what was said. Oh, I didn’t get to do my great bit of how it took the myth of the golem and used it to look at australia’s resurrection of the anzac image as propaganda. Well, probably best not really.