First up we’re very excited to present the world premiere of Democracy in partnership with Melbourne based sound and motion outfit – Feedback Loop. Feedback Loop principals Tim Bright and Nick Darling have put together what we consider a thrilling way forward in performance in the new hybrid theatre genre called "data jamming".
In August, Matt Scholten will direct American playwright Christopher Shinn’s provocative and moving Dying City. This is Matt’s first production with Hoy Polloy – he comes to us with an excellent reputation directing an extensive body of work around Melbourne.
As part of the Berlin Dayz festival presented by the Goethe-Institut Australia in November, I will direct the Australian premiere of Electronic City by Falk Richter translated by Daniel Brunet. This is a fantastic piece that hurtles at the speed of sound – hang onto your hats!
To all of our supporters – thank you for sticking with us. 2010 promises to be a ride you won’t forget.
Wayne Pearn
Hoy Polloy Artistic Director
Hybrid Theatre: Data Jamming – world premiere
Presented in partnership with Feedback Loop
Democracy
by Feedback Loop
Information is power.
As the distribution of information, freedom of communication and the accessibility of technology expands into the hands of ordinary citizens around the globe, Democracy explores and demonstrates the consequences of this rapid manifestation of information technology.
Politics, economics, communication and culture are examined within this genre expanding sound and motion production.
Feedback Loop takes control of real-time information, open-source software, raw data and consumer technologies to explore the changing forms of democracy.
One moment the audience is privy to the whims of the stock market expressed through reactive architectural lighting – the next, they will sink lucidly into a sea of deep affected electronica.
By exposing the powerful reality of peoples ability to access, utilize and distribute, Democracy invites the audience into the reality of our future – today.
Feedback Loop are pioneers in this relatively new hybrid theatre genre called data jamming, which involves data sampling and re-contextualising information from "the cloud" and filtering it through into the lens of technology.
Creative:
Creation & Design – Tim Bright and Nick Darling
Preview: Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Season: 12 – 23 May 2010
8.30pm Wednesday – Saturday
3.00pm Sunday
Venue:
MIPAC, Brunswick – corner Sydney & Glenlyon Roads
Tickets:
$20 General Admission
$15 Preview
Bookings:
03 9016 3873
hoypolloy@bigpond.com
Theatre – Victorian premiere
Dying City
written by Christopher Shinn
Set in the aftermath of 9/11 New York City, Dying City follows a therapist who is confronted by her husband's identical twin, who suspects that his brother's death in Iraq was not an accident.
Dying City is a quiet, unsettling play about grief, identity and violence in the human psyche – the lies, betrayal and self-deceptions and the centrality of hate in human existence.
Everyday, directly and indirectly, we all perpetrate or allow violence to occur in some form.
Some of us are troubled by this, some of us driven by it and most of us don't really talk about it.
Christopher Shinn writes about the violence we can see and an even darker violence located within.
“Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the ... sophisticated welding of form and content that is Dying City.”
The New York Times
"Shinn is able to take the political and humanize it – transforming the stuff of daily news stories into a devastating statement on the unforeseen and often hidden consequences of war."
AP News
Creative:
Director – Matt Scholten
Set & Costume Designer – Kat Chan
Composer – Ben Keene
Preview: Thursday, 5 August 2010
Season: 6 – 21 August 2010
8.15pm Tuesday – Saturday
5.00pm Sunday
Venue:
MIPAC, Brunswick – corner Sydney & Glenlyon Roads
Tickets:
$30 Adult
$20 Concession / Groups 10+
$18 Tuesdays
$15 Preview
Bookings:
03 9016 3873
hoypolloy@bigpond.com
Theatre – Australian premiere
Presented as part of Berlin Dayz by the Goethe-Institut Australia
Electronic City
written by Falk Richter
translated by Daniel Brunet
Globalisation, communication, digitalisation, standardisation, disorientation ... disintegration.
Electronic City is a burgeoning, all encompassing, uber techno metropolis where flexibility and resilience is paramount for success and survival.
BER: Berlin, MEL: Melbourne, TPE: Taipei, JFK: New York, FCO: Rome, MAD: Madrid – Tom hasn’t any idea what city he is in ... he’s moving so fast he’s going nowhere.
Tom's great love, Joy, is working the check out at the ‘ready to eat’ store in an airport – she dreams of George Clooney and longs for Tom ... her life is being filmed in a reality documentary soap.
Joy's infrared scanner has broken down as the queue of impatient corporates grows larger ... the system has crumpled.
The global conveyor belt has ceased – this is Electronic City.
“A fairy tale for media times”
Fischerverlage – Theater & Medien
“... a panic-stricken farce from the inner mental world of contemporary busyness ...”
Theaterheute
Creative:
Director – Wayne Pearn
Set & Costume Designer – Kat Chan
Lighting Designer – Ben Morris
Sound & Motion Designer – Feedback Loop
Preview: Thursday, 11 November 2010
Season: 12 – 27 November 2010
8.15pm Tuesday – Saturday
5.00pm Sunday
Venue:
MIPAC, Brunswick – corner Sydney & Glenlyon Roads
Tickets:
$30 Adult
$20 Concession / Groups 10+
$18 Tuesdays
$15 Preview
Bookings:
03 9016 3873
hoypolloy@bigpond.com
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