| Attack of the Attacking Attackers! | La Boite Theatre Company |
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SCREAM! with laughter. GASP! at the virtousic skill on display. SHIVER! with excitement.
It’s the…Attack of the Attacking Attackers!
So what the hell is Attack of the Attacking Attackers!…?
Kitsch, wickedly twisted and delightfully grotty. All Margaret wants is a comet-spotting badge for her Brownie uniform. Too young to go camping alone, Margaret drags her big brother and his cheerleading girlfriend into the haunted woods. But when the cheerleader suddenly goes missing, the teenagers find themselves caught in a war between Space Aliens and Demons from Hell. Will they escape the hellish House on the Hill? Will they survive an Alien Probing? And what happens when you swim naked in the Swamp of No Return?
Spawned from the disturbed minds of Brisbane’s finest young theatre-makers comes this warped love letter to Sci-Fi, Horror and the War on Terror.
An ensemble of five performers utilize the elements of object manipulation, shadow puppetry, dance, stage combat and slapstick to create a campy, low-tech but highly ambitious celebration of the worlds of science fiction and horror.
The production targets a film literate audience, steeped in popular culture and already attending fringe form entertainment. While referencing and manipulating the symbols of both horror and sci-fi, the production avoids spoof. Instead, it singles out and celebrates what makes them great. It is a homage, referential and reverential, not mocking. Pure imagination and invention is championed over budgetary solutions. It shows why Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds radio play is better than Spielberg’s film version and why Ed Wood did better invasion movies than Independence Day. What we are celebrating here is imagination, theatricality and the joy of play.
La Boite Theatre Company
Attack of the Attacking Attackers!
Created by Jonathon Oxlade, Matthew Ryan, Lucas Stibbard & Neridah Waters
Writer: Matthew Ryan
Director: Nic Dorward
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade
Lighting Designer: Carolyn Emerson
Sound Designer: Steve Toulmin
Featuring: Bryan Moses, Jonathon Oxlade, Emma Pursey, Lucas Stibbard and Neridah Waters
Venue: Roundhouse Theatre, Musk Ave. Kelvin Grove Urban Village
Previews: 28 & 29 October
Season: 30 October – 15 November
Times: Tues & Wed 6.30pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm
Tickets: Previews $38/$32
Opening Night $60
Season $44/$37
Groups 5+ $40
Under 25 years $25
Bookings: laboite.com.au or 3007 8600
Warning: Show contains low-level coarse language, sexual references, adult themes and depictions of violence.
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