Rawcus is a critically acclaimed ensemble of performers with and without disability who create distinct performance work and deliver exceptional arts experiences. Collaborating with a core creative team led by Artistic Director Kate Sulan, Rawcus devises new work that expresses the imaginative world of the Ensemble. Drawing on dance, theatre and visual art disciplines, the work is crafted with a precision that supports the performers but allows space for their inherent sense of anarchy. Rawcus’ performance aesthetic is characterised by a marriage of intense physicality and arresting visual imagery. Rawcus’ work is sculptural, unexpected, beautiful, funny and tender.
Rawcus’ work has won numerous awards and has featured as part of Dance Massive, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Next Wave and Melbourne Fringe. Rawcus has worked collaboratively with diverse Australian arts companies including Restless Dance Company, Born in a Taxi, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chambermade Opera.

Rawcus’ public program makes quality art works of meaning in and with the community enlivening people, places and perceptions

https://rawcus.org.au/about-us/the-company/

RAWCUS

Academy Award-winning French playwright Florian Zeller’s The Father wowed MTC audiences with a sell-out season in 2017. With The Truth, he delivers a devilishly dark comedy that took the West End by storm, collecting rave reviews and earning Zeller comparisons to Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward and Molière.

Michel and his wife Laurence are happily married. Michel’s best friend Paul is also happily married, to Alice. But Michel and Alice are having an affair, and Laurence seems to know that something’s going on. How far will Michel go to hide the truth? Why is Alice so keen to reveal it? What does Laurence actually know, or not know? And is Paul just pretending to be bad at tennis?

Presented in the English translation by Tony and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Father), The Truth sees the widely celebrated Zeller gleefully playing with our assumptions as he unravels a web of fiction, delusion and hypocrisy. A masterpiece of marital manipulations, it’s a delicious farce that asks us to consider the benefits of lying and the drawbacks of honesty.

VOICE: GAIN SLATER

2021 Southbank Theatre, The Sumner

The Truth

DISTANT MATTER
Music by Jethro Woodward
Dance Work by Anouk van Dijk
for Staatsballett Berlin & Komische Oper Berlin
15 Feb - 1 June 2019

https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/van-dijk-eyal/15-02-2019/787

Photo Jubal Battisti

Distant Matter

Theatre

04 Friendship

05 The Break Up

03 The Lie

02 Tightrope Walking

01 The Rendezvous

A Stuck Pigs Squealing Production
This is an invitation. New lands are being created. Memory, now and the future are pouring onto the internet. Reality is splintering into shards of mirror and a casual, congenial bear is showing up at people’s houses. If you’ve had a bad day at school, he’ll take you back to where it all went wrong. Or he may invite you to the woods – a place of myth, transgression and discovery, where outcasts can start again – but with grave consequences.

To view the Apocalypse Bear short films by Lally Katz and Nick Verso on You Tube click one the following links – Apocalypse Bear Episode #1 or Apocalypse Bear Episode #2.

Presented by Melbourne Theatre Company in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Auspiced by Theatre Works.

Photography: Brett Brogan


https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/production-archive/2005-2009/2009-studio-season/apocalypse-bear-trilogy/

Apocalypse Bear Trilogy Overture

Music Box Demo V1

Snow Edit5 Mix1

2013 Creative Development
LIve Recording

Nicholas Murray - Electric Guitar
Renato Vacirca - Drums.

Turbulence Live Recording 1

SUNDAY
By Anthony Weigh
Directed by Sarah Goodes
Original Music By Jethro Woodward

16 JAN — 18 FEB 2023
Southbank Theatre, The Sumner
A FANTASY OF LIFE AT HEIDE

Starring Nikki Shiels, Sunday is an audacious fantasy inspired by the stories and myths that surround Heide Museum of Modern Art founder Sunday Reed – the muse and mentor to a circle of artists including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester.

WaterColours

Ravel v7

Drums (Sound check 1)

Colour Test 2

PAVANE DE LA BELLE DORMANT

14 August 1945

16 October 1943

A Match is Struck

0104 THE DUCK ARMY

10 September 1939

7 July 1941

26 March 1948

3am - DEMO

10pm - DEMO

6pm - DEMO

342 - 350

Henry 5
By William Shakespeare
Bell Shakespeare Company 2025

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS, ONCE MORE

Director Marion Potts
Set and Costume Designer Anna Tregloan
Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
With JK Kazzi, Jack Halabi, Alex Kirwan, Odile le Clézio, Ava Madon, Harrison Mills, Ella Prince, Jo Turner, Mararo Wangai, Rishab Kern and Ziggy Resnick.

https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/henry-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqL28BhCrARIsACYJvkfyifVovz2JAfBu7TYNQR_mq1XhiLdLAfVXBRGTg6Eixmnv2xqJ32UaAqnkEALw_wcB



WarPath

Henry 5
By William Shakespeare
Bell Shakespeare Company 2025

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS, ONCE MORE

Director Marion Potts
Set and Costume Designer Anna Tregloan
Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
With JK Kazzi, Jack Halabi, Alex Kirwan, Odile le Clézio, Ava Madon, Harrison Mills, Ella Prince, Jo Turner, Mararo Wangai, Rishab Kern and Ziggy Resnick.

https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/henry-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqL28BhCrARIsACYJvkfyifVovz2JAfBu7TYNQR_mq1XhiLdLAfVXBRGTg6Eixmnv2xqJ32UaAqnkEALw_wcB
instr

Training X

Henry 5
By William Shakespeare
Bell Shakespeare Company 2025

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS, ONCE MORE

Director Marion Potts
Set and Costume Designer Anna Tregloan
Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
With JK Kazzi, Jack Halabi, Alex Kirwan, Odile le Clézio, Ava Madon, Harrison Mills, Ella Prince, Jo Turner, Mararo Wangai, Rishab Kern and Ziggy Resnick.

https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/henry-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqL28BhCrARIsACYJvkfyifVovz2JAfBu7TYNQR_mq1XhiLdLAfVXBRGTg6Eixmnv2xqJ32UaAqnkEALw_wcB


The War Council

Azincourt

05 First Light v5

06 Phantasma v02

02 Transmission v2

03 Fractures v5

03a Undergrowth

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Van Dieman's Land 

Hunger Is a strange Silence. 

In 1822, eight convicts escaped the brutal penal settlement Macquarie Harbour in a fateful bid for freedom. 
Based on the the infamous confessions of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict , Van Dieman's land is a dark goth tale that reflects Australia's true colonial heritage. 

www.vandiemensland-themovie.com
credits
released August 2, 2009 

Composed & Performed By Jethro Woodward 
Mandolin, Electric Guitar & Bass Guitar

The Snow

Gordon River

Encounters - Rawcus theatre co Flash Mob Oct 2016
Featuring Loops from the Buddha Machine!
www.fm3buddhamachine.com

Encounters

DISTANT MATTER
Dance Work by Anouk van Dijk
Music by Jethro Woodward
for Staatsballett Berlin & Komische Oper Berlin
15 Feb - 1 June 2019

https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/van-dijk-eyal/15-02-2019/787

This Place Is A Mesaage

Clockwork Duet

Clockwork Solo

Bounce

The LIne Up

This was the debut script of in-your-face playwright prodigy Sarah Kane. Her prescient dissection of our response to violence was heralded as ‘depraved’ by some, ‘tender’ by others. So ignited the polarising firestorm of Kane’s blazing career.

BY / Sarah Kane
DIRECTION / Anne-Louise Sarks
CAST / Fayssal Bazzi, Eloise Mignon & David Woods
SET & COSTUME DESIGN / Marg Horwell
LIGHTING DESIGN / Paul Jackson
SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION / Jethro Woodward
CINEMATOGRAPHY / Sky Davies
Photo: Pia Johnson

https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/blasted

Blasted

Alone Together

The Eisteddfod, by Lally Katz, directed by Chris Kohn. Design by Adam Gardnir, lighting design by Richard Vabre, Original score & sound design by Jethro Woodward. With Luke Mullins and Katherine Tonkin. By Stuck Pigs Squealing

Picture: Luke Mullins and Katherine Tonkin, The Eisteddfod

Lallys Dream Music

JETHRO WOODWARD is a Melbourne-based composer, musician and sound designer recognized for his expansive and highly layered film, theatre and dance scores.  A multi Green Room Award winner and nominee, he has worked with some of Australia’s leading major and independent companies including MTC, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir Company B, Arena, Windmill, MSO, Rawcus, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Fragment 31, Lucy Guerin, Australian Dance Theatre, KAGE and more.

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