January 2012
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
Melbourne Reviews
“This is intensely moving theatre, and for all the bleakness, beautiful. Rubin makes the unbearable seem bearable. Horror bows to wonder. I left feeling stricken but radiant.” - The Age, Cameron Woodhead (15/8/11) READ FULL REVIEW HERE “The human condition can be spoken of and can be read about. But when you hear it, see it and if it unveils in front of you, haunting you, if it...
May 2011
2 posts
What We Do
Too Close to the Sun is an independent theatre company devoted to the creation of devised solo work for live performance, committed to making revelatory, inventive work about what is alive, hidden and urgent. Originally founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2004, Too Close to the Sun roved to Montreal, Canada and is now based in Sydney. The name refers both to the proximity of the sun in Australia...
April 2011
1 post
Latest Updates...
Our most recent solo work, Of The Causes of Wonderful Things toured to Brisbane Festival’s Under The Radar in September 2010, LiveWorks at Performance Space, Sydney in November 2010 and the Adelaide Fringe where it was co-produced by Vitalstatistix in March 2011. You can read more about it in RealTime here http://www.realtimearts.net/article/100/10094 and here...
March 2010
31 posts
Artist Bios
Talya Rubin is a Montreal born, Sydney based writer, performer and creator of new work for live performance. She has toured with her original solo plays, Ariadne’s Thread, The Girl With No Hands and Of The Causes of Wonderful Things to festivals in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, Prague and Toronto including Brisbane Festival’s Under The Radar, LiveWorks, Performance...
Dream For The Invisible Girl →
Video inspiration for Of The Causes Of Wonderful Things.
Japanese version of Night and Day, sound element...
“Richly textured, deeply poetic, a pure performer’s piece.”
– Of The Causes of Wonderful Things, RealTime, Australia #100
Current Work
I am currently working on a new solo performance and installation piece called Of The Causes Of Wonderful Things. The piece is about five children who disappear and deals with darkness and what it means to accept the unacceptable. The work has had a script development at Fraser Studios as part of Off The Shelf, a stint of rehearsal space at the Redfern ARI (Artist Run Initiative), Bill &...
“an experience that is at once absolutely familiar, and entirely mysterious.”
– The Age, Ariadne’s Thread
“Sublime, a beautiful one-woman show brought to aching life”
– Melbourne Herald Sun, Ariadne’s Thread
“Blending myth and personal experience, Talya Rubin brilliantly puts the pieces...”
– Montreal Gazette, Ariadne’s Thread.
“Extraordinary must-see piece of theatre, an uncanny ability to use space and...”
– The Adelaide Advertiser, Ariadne’s Thread.
“Absolutely inhabiting all of her many characters on stage, Rubin brings...”
– Montreal HOUR, The Girl With No Hands.
Character of The Devil from The Girl With No...
