Michael Williams
NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK
WORLD
Premiere Season
WORLD
Premiere
David Pledger
Lone TwiN &
The Meaning of Moorabbin The Suitcase royale
is Open For Inspection
NewsBoys
Using photography, film, video and design, this is an
extraordinary theatre and installation work that plays with
Australian notions of family and suburbia
The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection is staged as an open
inspection. An ‘estate agent’ invites visitors to view the property. Theatrical,
ambient set pieces are the idiosyncratic features of the house made to
attract prospective buyers. Feelings and sensations about the suburbs and
the suburban house are evoked as visitors move through the property,
encountering the events and aspirations of the lives lived there.
The work culminates in an auction of sorts. What is on sale is not the building
itself but what it houses – the memories of lives lived, the past and possible
futures, the meanings of the suburbs, all accrued during the making and
viewing of the work.
Concept/Creation David Pledger
Project Coordinator
Lydia Teychenne
Sound Lawrence Harvey
Lighting Niklas Pajanti
In a unique collaboration, UK performance makers Lone
Twin team up with Melbourne-based junkyard theatre trio
The Suitcase Royale for a series of public performances in
prominent locations throughout the city
Both companies will spend time in the locations, attempting to meet and
speak with local inhabitants, workers and passers-by. From these interactions
they will gather an eclectic sense of local events; part news, part hearsay, part
first person utterance, part factual narrative, part fictional construct.
The Suitcase Royale will then return to the places to impart bulletins,
suggesting the familiar cries of Melbourne’s newsboys.
Newsboys continues Lone Twin’s fascination with the event of public oration.
In 2007 they created Town Crying, a series of site-specific cries across the North
East of England based on conversations with local people; and earlier this year
in Speeches they organised a collection of sited addresses by members of the
public across London’s Barbican complex.
British performance duo Lone Twin is widely regarded in the field
of contemporary performance. In 2005 the company presented an
unprecedented four works at Melbourne International Arts Festival.
The Suitcase Royale have toured locally and internationally with theatre
created out of the junk left on pavements, out of the refuge of the tip and
from the carelessly placed materials of local construction sites.
Details of ‘inspection times’
will be available on our website
from August
Free
www.melbournefestival.com.au
The project has received funding from the
Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
and the Arts Development Program of Arts
Victoria.
A Not Yet It’s Difficult project.
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Various locations
throughout Melbourne
Fri 10 – Mon 13 Oct
Free
www.melbournefestival.com.au
For details, check website or Festival
Planner which is inserted in The Age
in September
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