Home as Performance is a performative retrospective of The Living Room Theatre’s 25-year catalogue, inviting artists to respond to our legacy through the concept of home. By transforming our new venue into a living installation, we explore the intersection of theatre, architecture, memory, and performance. At its heart, Home as Performance reflects the diversity of female artistic voices, their work, their worth and their legacy.
The performative exhibition will frame and hang:
- The Tales Project – series of short films
- Ostinato: a short, repeated pattern – major work
- White Chair Series – Skeletal works past and present.
Each project will offer a unique opportunity for audiences, old and new, to engage with The Living Room Theatre across the year as they celebrate past works through a present lens and entice us into the next 25 years.
Beyond a celebration, this project is about innovation and legacy-building. By inviting artists to engage with The Living Room Theatre’s body of work, we create opportunities for fresh perspectives and new artistic responses. This ensures that our legacy is not just remembered but reinterpreted and expanded for future generations.
In collaboration with architects and a scenographer, we will design a space that is a home, a stage, and an archive—where audiences don’t just witness theatre, but inhabit it.
As a living, interactive archive, collaborations will be fostered across multiple disciplines and cultural backgrounds between theatre-makers, contemporary jazz ensembles, dance artists, and performance artists.
The combined artistic responses, performative conversations, and cultural exchange will inform the groundwork for a new work in 2026.
Concept
Michelle St Anne
Architect
Natalaie Brcar
Scenographer
Anna Tregloan (invited)
