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“A conversation starter and
tear-jerker… emotional depth
that hits at a gut level.”
HERALD SUN ON KAGE’S SUNDOWNER
TEAM
OF LIFE
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENTS
KAGE
THE COOPERS MALTHOUSE,
MERLYN THEATRE
Thu 16 – Mon 20 Oct
Thu – Sat at 7.30pm
Sun* & Mon at 6.30pm
Mon also at 1pm
A Reserve $49 / $39
B Reserve $39 / $29
Students $25
Transaction fees may apply
melbournefestival.com.au/team
The Coopers Malthouse 03 9685 5111
malthousetheatre.com.au
Ticketmaster 136 100
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Image: Jeff Busby
* Sun 19 Oct Auslan interpreted
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WORLD PREMIERE
CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY
KATE DENBOROUGH
CONCEIVED & WRITTEN BY
DAVID DENBOROUGH
MUSIC BY KELLY RYALL
& KUTCHA EDWARDS
If you thought of your life as a team,
who would be your coach? Who
is protecting your goals? Who is
cheering you on?
Sport, theatre, dance and music
meet head-on in this uplifting new
work from critically acclaimed
Melbourne dance theatre company
KAGE. Performed by professional
dancers, actors and rising sports
stars, TEAM OF LIFE honours both
the great Australian game and
the world game: Aussie Rules and
football.
This production springs from a
groundbreaking methodology,
which uses sporting metaphors
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to help young people overcome
hardship. Informed by workshops
with young refugees and Indigenous
youth, TEAM OF LIFE tells of
their search for different kinds of
freedom, dissolving the boundaries
between sport, theatre and identity.
POST-SHOW Q&A
Mon 20 Oct, post 1pm show
The creative team behind TEAM
OF LIFE talk about the process
of developing the show and
about the groundbreaking
methodology behind it.
ARTISTS IN
CONVERSATION – FREE
Sat 18 Oct at 1pm
FOXTEL FESTIVAL HUB
Kate Denborough, director of
KAGE, and performer David Nyuol
Vincent speak about art and
trauma, and the places where
the two converge. (See page 97)