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Now the sky’s water, the wind is fire, the earth’s a sun and Heaven is death. There’re too many ways beyond reason. Hotel Obsino
Clinging like lichen to the banks of a river, an old gothic Hotel houses outsiders who seek refuge from the virtual progress of a digitized technopolis, the delusions they inhabit making life inside the rotting walls real. Enter a naive escapee from a banal system who searches for genuine connection - the Hotel - but it is not what he imagined.
Exposed, the visitor’s life is altered forever.
Celebrating complex lives of contradiction, abjection, honesty and invention in a wicked humour, Hotel Obsino explores strength in adverse conditions of poverty and fear. Responding to the silenced voices in Australian society Hotel Obsino draws the lives of ‘disappeared’ phantoms which remain long after the structure is in ruins.
Adam Broinowski is a theatre practitioner and researcher based in Melbourne. He made the award-winning documentary Hell Bento! with Tetrapod and has performed, written and directed solo and group shows with many Australian theatre companies, touring to festivals in South America, Europe, UK, US, Singapore and around Australia. He was a core member of Gekidan Kaitaisha and a researcher at University of Tokyo for 5 years. In 2006 he produced his solo Vivisection Vision: animal reflections (Performance Space) and in 2007 he has created productions of two of his plays - Know No Cure (Theatreworks, Actors Studio Kuala Lumpur) and now Hotel Obsino (La Mama).
As part of The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival 2007
La Mama presents
Hotel Obsino
written and directed by Adam Broinowski
Performed by Tom Davies, Tahir Cambis, Erick Mitsak, Dylan Lloyd, Le Roy Parsons, Brendan Bacon, Melanie Douglas, Craig Hedger, Polash Larsen
Lights by Gwendolyna Holmberg-Gilchrist
Sound by Andrew Williamson (LABJACD)
Venue: La Mama, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
Dates: September 12 - September 30, 2007
Times: Weds and Suns at 6.30pm, Thurs and Fris at 8.00pm, Sats at 4.30pm
Duration: 80 mins
Tickets: $20 (full) / $10 (conc.)
Bookings: 9347 6142 or Fringe
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