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Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE program for 2008 concludes with Disappearance, the newest performance by local theatre company The Border Project, running from 12– 22 November at the Space Theatre.
Disappearance is a new performance that blows apart and retells fictional stories and historical events spanning 100 years into a mash of mythology and mayhem. A perfectly ordinary man with a perfectly ordinary life decides to disappear. A James Bond-like international conspiracy unfolds to kidnap our Prime Minister. A re-imagined Picnic at Hanging Rock is a ghost story to keep you awake at night.
Disappearance moves from a jump-cut present day story into an eerie Bermuda Triangle void that conjures real and imagined characters and occurrences. Harold Holt sings a sea shanty. Three children play quietly with their toy trucks. Miranda's corset hangs eerily in the air. A talking Tasmanian tiger growls at a little girl with some powerful earmuffs. Disappearance is an exhilarating journey into the fears, fascinations and obsessions with the mythology of disappearance in Australian culture.
The Border Project has just returned from Wharf 2 at Sydney Theatre Company, where Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton programmed the company’s electrifying Highway Rock ‘n’ Roll Disaster, which was a hit with Sydney’s critics and audiences alike. Last seen in Adelaide in the 2008 Adelaide Fringe, their performance Trouble on Planet Earth was a runaway hit of the festival and won the 2008 Ruby Award for Innovation, the 2008 Bank SA Support Act Award, and one of The Advertiser’s weekly Fringe Awards.
The Border Project is a contemporary performance ensemble committed to charting the future language of live performance, creating performances that engage and communicate with an audience that traditional theatre has left behind. The Border Project creates work using a performance language that reflects the time and place that we live in - where we are surrounded by the collision of sound and images from videos, pop music, film, television and cyber-media.
The Border Project received funding for Disappearance from the Australia Council and Arts SA.
The Border Project and Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE program present
Disappearance
Performers: Katherine Fyffe, Jude Henshall, Ksenja Logos, Astrid Pill, Rory Walker and Alirio Zavarce
Director: Sam Haren
Associate Director: Daniel Koerner
Set & Costume Design: Mary Moore
Executive Producer: Heidi Angove
Text: Noëlle Janaczewska
Lighting Design: Mark Pennington
Sound: Andrew Howard and Andrew Russ
Venue: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
When: 12 – 15, 19 – 22 November, 8pm
Cost: $25 Adults, $20 Concession, $18 inSPACE members, $15 Fringe Benefits members
Bookings: BASS on 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
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Saturday, 10 January 2009
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