The Waiting Room
Devised by Platform 27
Directed by Richard Lagarto
Lighting Design by Stephen Hawker
Sound Design by Liberty Kerr
Set Design by Sam Hawker
Costume Design by Adrienne Chisholm
Multimedia Design by Rolando Ramos
Performed by Wahibi Moussa, Steve Mouzakis & Valerie Berry
Previews May 13 & 14 @ 6.30pm
May 15 - June 1, Mon & Tues @ 630pm, Wed - Sat @ 8pm
Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets Carlton
Why does Australia fear the world's most helpless and vulnerable citizens?
Melbourne Workers Theatre and Platform 27 dare you to look past the
razor wire into the white face of Australia's refugee policy.
The Waiting Room is a limbo existence where there is no belonging, no
identity and no known future. It is the destination of many of today's
asylum seekers, who survive terror and war only to be incarcerated by
unfriendly bureaucratic systems. Through text, multimedia and physical
theatre, this Kafka-esque parable exposes the fundamental xenophobia of
Australia's policies.
Melbourne Workers Theatre, Melbourne's workshop for new writing and
theatre, celebrates its 15th birthday this year. MWT continues to be
committed to working class issues and struggles and those of people from
disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities. The Waiting Room is the
first partnership between Melbourne Workers Theatre and Platform 27.
Platform 27 is an innovative Sydney based collective dedicated to
creating theatre that is truly representative of contemporary
multicultural Australia. Platform 27's first show under this name (they
were previously Trash Can Bang Theatre Company) was the spectacular
Marinheiro in May, 2000, a seafaring epic about the Portuguese
exploration of Australia before Captain Cook. Marinheiro was proclaimed
as "by turns, witty, provoking and extraordinary.." (SMH) and "an
attractive and seamless marrying of performance, sound and vision.."
(Sun Herald).
The Waiting Room is hardhitting political theatre that aims to debunk
rascist myths about refugees and confront audiences with the reality of
existence inside detention centres.
Tickets: $20/$13/$10 previews & gp bkings Book: 9326 8371
Media, for further information please call Kathryn Ross at Ballyhoo
Publicity on 03 9329 8884 or 0411 286 500.
MELBOURNE WORKERS THEATRE is celebrating our 15th anniversary this year.
Melbourne Workers Theatre's 2002 Program Launch
11am
Wednesday 1 May
New Ballroom
Trades Hall
Cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts
Carlton
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Melbourne Workers Theatre
03 9326 6667
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