The Age > Walking wounded

Visit The Age for Robin Usher's article "Walking wounded" about Dying City by Christopher Shinn, which opens next week.

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Publicity Pic > Dying City

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Credit: Fred Kroh

Victorian Premiere > Dying City

Theatre > Victorian Premiere

Dying City
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
Design – Kat Chan
Lighting – Tom Willis
Composer – Ben Keene

Cast:
Kelly – Zoe Ellerton-Ashley
Peter / Craig – Brad Williams

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

Cast Announcement > Dying City

We are pleased to announce the cast of the Victorian premiere of Dying City written by Christopher Shinn:

Kelly > Zoe Ellerton-Ashley
Peter / Craig > Brad Williams

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World Premiere > Democracy

World Premiere > Hybrid Theatre: Data Jamming
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 people's 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