The foul of the air presented the beauty and the power of physical assemblage, with the energy and intentions of the performers and the audience merging through physical proximity. The filmed remnants of the live performance of The Foul of the Air are just that – perfectly curated and edited slices of a performance that in […]
Author: Living Room Theatre
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / THE LOCK-UP
A practice interrogates collaboration and devising to re-write bodily and societal scripts.
The Black Summer & Time, Grief, Memory, Value
The whole project relied so heavily on trust, and the result is a broody work about time, grief and memory
In conversation / Anastasia Mortimer
I feel so deeply about this work, and this scene in particular, because it keeps changing my worldview every time I think of it.
Discovering a home / Imogen Cranna
There was an ever-present inner voice that would question the viability of a cross-disciplinary practice.
Ghostly Landscapes: Reflecting on Sunlit Noir and the Australian Gothic
To gothicise is to turn towards these conditions and resonances, to tend to rather than shy away from the odorous wounds of history. Festering in the hot Australian sun, their continuous, gaping presence demands it.
Requiem for A Black Summer
rituals helped me shroud this new work in the layers of grief that is resistant to the flows of time.
Sites of Violence / Collision and Composition
Caught within both the theatrical and the academic worlds, I have long been fascinated with the public lecture – its rhythm, its timbre and the frequency of facts
Threads of Home and Compositional Thinking
What if your home is not a building but a landscape? A river, a coastline, bush, forest, an ice field or desert.
‘Birdsong at Dusk’ – a Creative Director’s notes
Dusk traditionally presents a romantic palette, but given the current firestorms we are forced to confront a new kind of palette.