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Curtain World is proud to present the debut production of Zagazig by Esther Dougherty. You are invited to a night at the theatre - the theatre of enduring and everlasting dreams and deliriums.
On a night as warm as day time - but night time - Honey submits to the perfumes of fate. On a midnight quest to force a woman to be her mother, Honey is sucked into a cosmic fabric that tickles her, but that she can't understand. Each stitch she unpicks, each housemate that dies, each terrible disguise, each kidnap, each vision - each brings her where and for why and with who? As greater and greater forces dip their toes in her mouth, Honey is manipulated past the point of no return and spirals down beneath the hallucinated city she was born in. The cat! The snake! The child! A trick! A secret! And up rises the winter moon. And over flies you, a beautiful flock of baby birds. And there goes Honey; she gets tossed in the river all the same. Zagazig is a gory and dreamlike chase through a nighttime Brisbane. An excavation of magical thinking. Action packed, music filled, loud, quiet and fast/slow - a theatre for the middle of the night but it won't be but PRETEND! PRETEND!
Written and directed by Esther Dougherty
Starring... Eli Free as Honey Luke Diamond as Kitty Severin Faust as Apep Kundai Walter Gotore as The Ibis Liam Linane as Diane, Fly, Dancer #2, Björn, and Death Siobhan Gibbs as Amelia, Nonie, and Haunted Drawers Phoebe Manning as Cowboy, Pot Plant, and Tommy Ben Snaith as Victor and Chorus Damien Crisis as Chorus Harry Doherty as Chorus Hannah Winn as Chorus
Sound Design and live score performed by James Eyre Walker With special guests Guppy, SOLCHLD, and DJ Miko
Set Design by Clo Love and Seren Wagstaff Costumes by Asia Beck Jijnasu Lighting by Steven May Projection by Nevin Howell Stage Management by Kian Dillon
Co-produced by Esther Dougherty and Victoria Barlow with support from Kian Dillon Marketing and Production support from T'keya Chambers
Poster Design by Clo Love
Presented by Curtain World Run time: 120min Doors 30min before show starts VENUE: VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street South Brisbane
SEASON DATES Wednesday June 21 - PREVIEW: 6 - 8.30pm
PREVIEW TICKET CODE: Use hidden ticket access code PRE-ZAGA-VIEW for $25 Preview tickets - for Wednesday June 21 only
CONTENT WARNING: Adult content, simulated violence Zagazig is performed on the unceded lands of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. We pay respect to elders, and acknowledge enduring sovereignty. VENTspace stands alongside Musgrave Park, which has long been an important meeting and ceremonial site for First Nations people. We pay our respects to the long history of that place, and honour the significance of performing near that place.
Event detailsVenue: VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street South Brisbane
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