Self Contained Spaces

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Event Self Contained Spaces
Venue Donkey Wheel House, Melbourne, VIC
Umbrella Event Melbourne Fringe Festival 2011
First Date 27 September 2011
Opening Date 27 September 2011
Last Date 2 October 2011
Dates Estimated Yes
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere Yes
Description When Eleanor first told me the story of the woman on the toilet seat, my reaction was horror and great sadness. The challenge with this show was to find the strength and joy in her journey. Why did she stay there for so long? Why did she resist emergency services when they came and removed her? As Dr Phil would say, there has to be a payoff and our task was to find what that was. As part of our exploration, we looked at Plato’s allegory of the cave, and suddenly it became clear to me - she was seeing a world bigger and brighter than the rest of us. This woman had left the cave and seen
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Festival
Poetry
Visual Theatre
Physical Theatre
Performance Art
Subjects Behaviour
Fatalism
Freedom
Madness
Masochism
Performance art
Privacy
Psychology
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Clare Callow Actor Role: The Void
Sara Caputo Actor Role: Rope Woman
Beth Liston Actor Role: Cocoon Woman
Renae Shadler Actor Role: Water/Moss Woman
Eleanor Lindberg Designer Concept and design
Samsara Dunston Director
Renee Palmer Publicist
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web www.samsaradunston.blogspot.com.au
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 132172