Good evening. It’s a real privilege to stand here tonight at this fantastic new venue surrounded by the people who make the inner west come alive with creativity. I acknowledge the Gadical and Wangal people and pay my respects to Elders past and present. The Living Room Theatre has spent 25 years creating immersive experiences […]

Multi-disciplinary artist Ira Ferris joins LRT as an Associate Artist. Ira’s experience is broad covering a wide section of the sector from practice, curation and curiosity. Recently, St Anne invited Ira to join the company for our major work ‘The Reckoning’ and a new partnership started to take shape.  Ira you work across wide parts of […]

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Creating intimate, purposeful and engaging experiences for the respective target audience

A practice interrogates collaboration and devising to re-write bodily and societal scripts.

I feel so deeply about this work, and this scene in particular, because it keeps changing my worldview every time I think of it.

There was an ever-present inner voice that would question the viability of a cross-disciplinary practice.

I have to say I have relished the autonomy and singularity of vision that being solo artistic director affords me.

Themes of despair, the desire for something better, the suffering of everyday life

Violence is what I know. I know its sounds, smells and sights. I understand its complexities.