AUSTRALIAN
EXCLUSIVE
The Nico
Project
Arts Centre Melbourne
Playhouse
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Tue—Sun 7.30pm
Sat 19 October also 1pm
1 hr 10 mins no interval
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Arts Centre Melbourne
1300 182 183
Commissioned by Melbourne International
Arts Festival, Manchester International Festival
and the Royal Court.
Presenting
Partner
One of pop culture’s most original female
artists, Nico has long remained one of its
most enigmatic.
After an early career as actor and muse
for filmmakers such as Fellini and Warhol,
German-born Christa Päffgen blazed onto
the American music scene like a meteor.
Her 1967 debut with The Velvet Underground
spawned one of rock’s most enduring works,
but rather than becoming devoured by the
New York arts scene she risked it all, shunned
the limelight and dedicated the years until
her premature death creating a body of work
that was pioneering and marginalised, but
all hers.
The Nico Project opens the line between
Nico’s potent imagination and us, and
commands from the shadows a figure who
should never have been consigned to it.
Inspired by her stark, innovative 1968 album
The Marble Index, performer Maxine Peake
(Black Mirror, Shameless) and director Sarah
Frankcom (Artistic Director of Manchester’s
Royal Exchange Theatre)—alongside 15
female musicians from Australia and the
UK—lead this exhilarating exploration into the
world of female creativity and its devastating
cost in a field dominated by men.
Commissioning
Circle
Funded by
donations from the
Co-creators
MAXINE PEAKE
SARAH FRANKCOM
Music
ANNA CLYNE
Text
E.V. CROWE
Movement
IMOGEN KNIGHT
Design
LIZZIE CLACHAN
Lighting Design
PAULE CONSTABLE
Sound Design
HELEN ATKINSON
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