by Marie Corrigan | Oct 24, 2018 | Past Productions
Gap III production – August 2018 Directed by Amanda Crewes DO WE PRETEND we don’t understand consent to push our own agendas – or are we genuinely confused? This question is explored here, after more than 50 interviews were conducted with people from a diverse range of backgrounds. The show gives a 360-degree perspective on what people believe consent is, giving an often harrowing exploration as to how they imply it. Implied Consent is the second in a trilogy of plays from The Actors’ Hub exposing a culture that needs to be redefined, following the subject of coward punches in One Punch Wonder. All use the genre of verbatim theatre, using the exact words of people interviewed. ...
by Marie Corrigan | Aug 10, 2018 | Past Productions
Gap II production – June 2018 Directed by Ross McGregor True grit of 1890s Australia in an adaptation of a Chekhov classic. Adapted from Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the play has been given an Aussie flavour to suit a variety of conditions, characters, historical facts and politics. The play explores how a young family, ripped away from their homeland to settle thousands of miles away, are continually reminded that this promised Eden seems to wilfully slip through their fingers and keeps pulling them back to what was never real. ...
by Marie Corrigan | Jun 24, 2018 | Past Productions
Gap III production – June 2018 Devised and directed by Amanda Crewes WELCOME to a world where your experience is your choice. L’Appel Du Vide (“the call of the void”) is a sensitive, heart-warming exploration of the allusive dream and what we sacrifice to achieve what we imagine. The show is told through puppetry, masks and live performance and looks at friendship, loss and new perceptions. L’Appel Du Vide takes us on an adventure through the eyes of different characters as they play with the seductive call from the void. It’s a physical exploration of the idea that curiosity killed the cat and the cost of connection versus the cost of letting go....
by Marie Corrigan | Apr 28, 2018 | Past Productions
Gap II production – April 2018 Devised and directed by Ellis Pearson The Actors’ Hub Gap 2 students, directed by Ellis Pearson, present an anthology of devised pieces told through the wonderful language of theatre, drawing in the audience through a feast of sounds and visual imagery. The two pieces follow the survival of two women in different social realities. In one, a mother battles the elements to deliver her child into a world beset with the harrowing onslaught of a high magnitude earthquake. Meanwhile, a supermodel, who resides in her world of beauty, is beset with nightmares and the reality of the way she’s treated and viewed by her society....
by Marie Corrigan | Mar 23, 2018 | Past Productions
Platinums production – January-February 2018 Directed by Amanda Crewes Four Men. Four Shows. Four Nights. All Fringe, FOUR men performing the following four shows across four weeks make up 4x4x4 at Fringe World in 2018…. What happens when hope comes up against The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Set in a post-apocalyptic Perth, aliens have invaded and are slowly depleting the earth’s water and population. A small group of survivors have succeeded in capturing one of the aliens. Hypnotic and razor-Sharp, “Pool (no water)” tears up the ideals of friendship and art, exposing a deep vein of envy. Written by Mark Ravenhill, it takes a humorous yet unsettling dive into the way a group of four shadow artists attempt to sabotage, blame, lie, exploit and take delight in the demise of one of their own. How much damage does one punch really do? One Punch Wonder pulls up the page and looks into the cowards’ punch from all angles. Are there really any heroes from a coward’s punch? We all want success. But are you willing to pay the price? Why? explores the lives of some well-known trailblazers, within their own industries: Heath Ledger, Robin Williams, Muhammad Ali and Andy Kaufman. The sacrifices they made and work they did. Why? Poses the question: Are legends born? Or do they make themselves?...
