Preview show: Tuesday 14th October
Season: Wednesday 15th – Saturday 18^th October

All shows at 8pm

Tickets: Full$22, Con$16, Preview $10

Bookings: 0395343388 or
www.theatreworks.org.au

A terrifying, joyful glimpse at the Australia of the future under increasing surveillance, state control, and government programs to eliminate hope. Just by tapping your mobile phone.

The children are all gone. The country is in lock down. Helicopters are flying overhead. They know where you live. And they’re coming to get you. The H Factor is spreading out of control. They will stop at nothing to eliminate it. Have you been infected yet?

Presence and absence. Madness and grace. Joy and terror. All there in the same breath.

It’s a mistake to think you can control it. But it’s a bigger mistake to do nothing.

Besides it always works out in the end. Unless, this time, it doesn’t.

The Performers

Pip Edwards (Some Girls 2008), Tracey Mathers (We Can Be Heroes-ABC TV), Simon Morrison-Baldwin (Cellblock Booty and East 2008),) and Alison Richards (Veteran theatre performer and director).

Ricci-Jane Adams-Playwright

Ricci-Jane Adams has won the St Martins Youth Theatre Company Playwrighting Competition and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Young Writer in Residence award, as well as an award from the Monash National Playwrights competition. Her play, The Not Yet Beautiful Girl received an award from the Australian Theatre for Young People, and an Australia Council Grant for production in 2005 by Aubergine Theatre, directed by Sarah Austin. Ricci-Jane was invited to attend the 2003 World Interplay Youth Playwrighting Festival as well as the Aotearoa National Playwrights Conference in 2004.

Stephen Nicolazzo-Artistic Director

Stephen Nicolazzo has most recently been nominated for the Beason award through Malthouse Theatre. He won the Union House Theatre Professional Development Award and directed several independent theatre productions including Closer (The Store Room, 2005), the world premiere seasons of Playground and Brightside for Little Ones Theatre in 2007, Tick Tick Boom (Theatreworks, 2007), Short & Sweet Top 30 (Fairfax Studio @ The Arts Cenre, 2007) and short play Swimming Pool (Carlton Courthouse, 2007. In 2008, Stephen worked with Chris Kohn, Lally Katz, and Marianne Lynch on the script development and workshop of Stuck Pigs Squealing and Arena Theatre Company’s Say Goodbye To Vaudeville Charlie Mudd for Malthouse Theatre. He was assistant director to Chris Kohn on Chambermade Opera’s The Children’s Bach by Glenn Perry and Andrew Schultz (after the Helen Garner novel). Stephen is directing Ricci-Jane Adams’ A Slow & Steady Darkening Towards Light in 2009.

Set Design: Daiana Voinescu (Swinburne University) Sound Design: Richard Lipp

Stage Management: Isobel Ferns (Red Stitch Ensemble member) Production Manager: Rosie Collins