Love Stories is a unique new collaboration between internationally acclaimed guitarist (and actor) Karin Schaupp, brilliant cutting edge Australian ensemble TOPOLOGY and multi award-winning film maker and one of Australia’s leading journalists, Trent Dalton.

This is a real life look at love: real people share their own stories on film, intimately captured by Dalton. We are invited into their world as they share words, songs and poems of love- romantic love, family love, self love, friendship and tragedy. Their stories form the basis of the all-new musical soundtrack which was created by Topology with Karin Schaupp and its live performance is interwoven with the films.

This is an emotional and contemporary look at love. A single line on the guitar underpins a man’s sharing of his story of the child he lost and the love he still feels, the ensemble accompanies as a young woman shares the story of her first kiss, soaring strings accompany an old woman’s beautiful rendering of her favourite love song, sung to the budgie who saved her life.

At the end we discover that all the characters we have laughed and cried with are not only real people, they are all homeless people living in Brisbane in 2014.

Venue Format
Theatre
Considerations

Love Stories is poised for World Premiere at Queensland Music Festival in July 2015, then will be available for touring from July-September. We are seeking possible tour destinations following the premiere in Brisbane.

Topology, Australia’s most surprising music organisation, creates original work across many genre boundaries. Artist-in-Residence at the Brisbane Powerhouse and Key Organization of Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Queensland, their full-bodied energy brings out the full potential of five musicians comprising saxophone, strings and piano.

Since 1997, Topology has released 11 albums, created countless evening-length works and an award-winning concert series. Topology’s productions bring together a unique mix of music and theatre through thoughtful staging and beautiful lighting. They are famous for the breadth and depth of their collaborations. Undaunted by stylistic barriers, the quintet has created stunning new work with partners in theatre (Geoffrey Rush), classical music (Brodsky Quartet, Southern Cross Soloists), contemporary art music (Terry Riley), ballet (Queensland Ballet), contemporary jazz (Trichotomy, Loops), popular songwriting (Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan), comedy (the Kransky Sisters, Gerry Connolly), Asian music (Dheeraj Shrestha, TaikOz, Tony Prabowo, Ubiet) and indigenous Australian music (William Barton).

Company Website
topologymusic.com

Community Engagement

Topology has an energetic education program, working closely with schools since 1998 to guide individual and collaborative student compositions and performances, develop concerts and perform with students. These music education workshops will be available for touring venues/presenters.