The Research and Inspiration for ‘Black Crows’ – Part 2 How does Black Crows draw on environmental issues and themes for an axis of storytelling and performance? Thematically, my artistic work steps between environmental and the personal, often referring to it as the epic vs domestic. The Anthropocene gives me a framework to tell story from, to […]
Author: Living Room Theatre
Behind the Curtain
The Research and Inspiration for ‘Black Crows’ – Part 1 On March 24-25, 2017 The Living Room Theatre in partnership with Sydney Environment Institute & the City of Sydney will be hosting ‘Black Crows Invaded Our Country,’ an artistic contextualisation of the public lecture in the merging of academic research with indigenous story, performance, and sound art. Black Crows features research […]
How do we communicate our academic work to the broader public?
The idea is to rethink, recontextualise, and rediscover the usual academic lecture.
Architect of an unstable mind
“The decisions she makes about how spaces and buildings are used are breathtaking, and often deeply unfashionable”.
Introducing Leah Lui-Chivizhe
Earth Hour’s Storyteller Leah is a doctoral student in history at the University of Sydney where her research focuses on Torres Strait Islander relationships and engagements with the marine environment and the Islander-turtle relationship. Leah also holds graduate qualifications in material anthropology and human geography. She has undertaken research on material culture and eastern Torres Strait tombstone ceremonies, Islander […]
5 minutes with Luke Craven
It is my hope that the performance creates an insight into the fragility of our own safety and the humanity we find in times of great threat.
They come for them at night
Showing of a work development This work, will explore what a home is and will delve into the comforts of food and the familiar, as a nurturer and nourishment. Ultimately, it’s about leaving and those left behind. In my work, the audience is invited to jump down the imagination hole and create their own unique […]
LRT Wins 2013 IDEA Award
I Love Todd Sampson – Event Category It is with much excitement that we announce that Michelle received last Friday the IDEA 2013 Award in the Events Category in Melbourne for The Living Room Theatre/I Love Todd Sampson director/designer collaboration. The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is Australia’s largest and most successful independent design awards […]
Sydney Arts Guide
To detail what happens over the following 80 minutes or so would spoil the experience, which is what this play most enthrallingly is.
Concrete Playground
I Love Todd Sampson is an easy play to recommend, though a hard one to describe.