On Archaeology

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Event On Archaeology
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
First Date 29 October 1986
Opening Date 29 October 1986
Last Date 16 November 1986
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere Yes
Description 'On Archaeology': A Discourse on Theatre. "The object is deliberately incomplete. Each action is subject to decomposition, to corrosion through repetition...the action under interrogation is outside the discourse of history... Each relic is (re) discovery but not necessarily a recuperation of the object. On Archaeology is about forgetting as we re-enter memory but acknowledge leaving it behind. We are strangers in our own Pompeii."

Performed as a double bill with "Ostraka". The season presented two new works from Entr'acte Theatre, around the themes of memory, departure, return, and repetition.
Description Source Flyer/Poster
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Physical Theatre
Avant-garde
Movement-based Theatre
Related Events
  • Mixed Bill Ostraka , The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 29 October 1986
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Nick Tsoutas Designer
Nick Tsoutas Director
Matthew Serventy Lighting Designer
Nick Tsoutas Lighting Designer
Christopher Allen Performer
Andrea Aloise Performer
Elisabeth Burke Performer
Pierre Thibaudeau Performer
Fiona Waite Performer
Brian Wilkinson Performer
Richard James Allen Writer
Further Information Performance Space Archives, Carriageworks, Redfern.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Mike Mullins Archives http://mikemullins.com.au
Performance Space Database
Brochure Oct-Nov 1986 program flyer, Performance Space
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 79468