The Memory Priest
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| Venue | Bluestone Building Living Museum, Maribyrnong, VIC | |||||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 30 November 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | |||||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||||||||
| Description | A site-specific installation performance about collective amnesia, The Memory Priest uses as its seed a monotheistic tribal practice from Sumatra. This tribe would elect one male as its sole authority, responsible for recording personal and collective history. At 30 he would be made to recount all he could recall and then killed. When the next male child born into the tribe came of age history began again. Nothing from before was carried forward. The past was forgotten. |
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| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||||||||
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Performance Art
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| Text Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Data Set | AusStage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 96008 | |||||||||||||||||||
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