Mark Alston

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Mark Alston

Creative Interest Area

Literature, Theatre, Film

Experience

Introduced to theater by a production of ‘Othello” in his early teens, Mark is fascinated by the suspension of belief that can occur in performance. He views modern day theatrical production as a mechanism to questions and inform public debate. Much of his acting career has been in Port Moresby, P.N.G. from the early nineties to the turn of the millennium where he was involved in such productions as Weils ‘Threepenny Opera’, Schaffer’s ‘Amadeus’, Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap, Stoppard’s ‘Real Thing’, Barry’s ‘Peter Pan’ and Shakespeare’s ‘King Henry IV Part 1 & ‘Twelfth Night.

Mark returned to Australia in 2015 and has directed Matt Cameron’s absurdist story of isolation and loneliness in ‘Mr Melancholy’ and performed in ‘The 39 Steps’, ‘A Case of Good Intentions, ‘The Kill’, The Home Front’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life – A Radio Play among others.

 

Accomplishments

Mark’s position in the committee of ‘Moresby Arts Theatre’ gave him direct participation in the process the ‘Globe to Globe’ mission of taking their production of ‘Hamlet’ around the world to celebrate the 450th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. The performance of ‘Hamlet’ in Port Morseby at the Caritas High School in August 2015 was the largest house of any performance in Papua New Guinea with more than one thousand audience members.