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  • DIE! DIE! DIE! OLD PEOPLE DIE!
    In this work, indie theatre legends, David Woods and Jon Haynes project into 120-year-old versions of themselves in a seriously funny work about hanging on, dying and grieving,  all played at 33rpm. Flagship UK theatre company created by Ridiculusmus (The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland; Give Me Your Love), and marking a return to Arts…
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  • THE INFIRMARY
    Enter a richly poetic experience, submit to the caring hands of others and contemplate your mortality. Set in a hospital ward, The Infirmary invites you to give yourself over to a uniquely sensorial encounter that considers life and death as science and mystery. Can we ever be ready to die? How do we imagine our…
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  • WHILE YOU SLEEP
    An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems. Exploring flight, escape, memory and dissociation, While You Sleep: A Fugue is both…
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  • A GHOST IN MY SUITCASE
    Stage adaptions have,  by nature, the tendency to go awry, the difficulties of translating characters, place and time from page into something tangible within performance, are all too-well known. However, in this adaption of A Ghost In My Suitcase, originally written  by Gabrielle Wang, here made real by Barking Gecko Theatre, lies an example of…
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  • A QUIET EVENING OF DANCE
    The huge scope of the State Theatre is a curious setting for such an anti-theatrical event as A Quiet Evening Of Dance. Black vinyl floor, white wash lights, dancers in ‘civvies’ and, to begin with, no music at all. The silence is refreshing and reminds one to be less damning of the coughers and rustlers,…
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09/10/2018

‘PARADISE’ OR PANDEMONIUM?

My name is Isabella Whāwhai Waru and I am a Ngati Tukorehe and Te Atiawa descendant. What follows is my account of events that have unfolded over the past month which are close to my heart and which call upon my sense of responsibility as an artist, writer and Indigenous person to speak my truth.…
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08/10/2018

MY NAME IS JIMI

Walking out of the Fairfax theatre, a well-dressed woman in her 50s declared that “without all the visual spectacle, this story would have been too dark to tell”. My Name Is Jimi was developed by Queensland Theatre in collaboration with artist Jimi Bani. It’s an autobiographical piece that centres on the performer’s country, Mabuiag Island…
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08/10/2018

LA BOITE / PRIZE FIGHTER

  From fight choreography so visceral you’ll feel every blow to writing that packs an emotional punch, Prize Fighter ducks and weaves with astonishing grace. The play marks the debut of a Congolese-Australian writer Future D. Fidel and, after raved-about seasons, finally steps through the ropes to stagger audiences in Melbourne. In the lead up to its…
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06/10/2018

WATT

Taking four years to complete the writings which would become Watt,  this adaption of Samuel Beckett’s piece is in stark contrast to such stretching time; it is instead condensed into a single performance of just one hour in length, and it’s solid stuff. It, of course, focuses in on central character, a man of this work’s…
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05/10/2018

LEXICON

Circus began as very specific entertainment. 250 years later, the genre has been taken apart, stripped and stretched to the edge, and will undoubtedly keep moving as society dictates. NoFit State Circus was born of political distress under Thatcher in Wales and has been a leading innovator in today’s contemporary circus since. Contemporary circus is…
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05/10/2018

ASUNA / 100 KEYBOARDS

Since the late 1990s Asuna has created experimental sound works that vault genre divides, crossing from hip-hop to hardcore punk to freak folk noise and low-fi pop. Asuna’s landmark work 100 Keyboards is a site-specific listening experience in which one hundred battery operated keyboards are sensitively brought to life, generating an undulating sonic harmony both mesmerising and mysterious. The crowd…
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04/10/2018

TRUSTEES

We enter the space, stripped of its usual seating bank; we are instead asked to look inward, at each other, as the space is now set in the round. How this performance begins, is nothing as it ends. The narrative twists and turns between monologue and script, through to all the more personal anecdotes. The…
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03/10/2018

DANIEL JAUREGUI

As the Boite World Music gathers us once again in celebration the world, diversity and the bridging of divide and community through song, this world music open mic session is to be lead by a Latin musician Daniel Jauregui. Through his artistic process, Daniel combines elements of Latin and Fusion music, uniting them through some…
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