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No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before #8
10 - 19 AUGUST | THEATRE WORKS | WITH THEATRE WORKS
No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before #8
VENUE
by Born in a Taxi
A high risk performance with no safety net. No script and no plan. Performed annually until one of them dies… who will go first?
No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before #8 (NFP#8) is the eighth iteration of this parachute-less skydive into risk, improvisation, and audience-performer reciprocity.
Three of Melbourne’s most distinguished and virtuosic performers will willingly live and re-live the actor’s nightmare night after night. The galvanizing gaze of the audience meets the embodied skills of the performers… and they’re off!
The result is an exhilarating show; edgy, immediate and playful.
Theatre Works
DURATION
50 minutes
WARNINGS
This is suitable for anyone.
DATES + TIMES
Thu 10 Aug 8.00pm (Preview)
Fri 11 Aug 8.00pm (Opening)
Sat 12 Aug 8.00pm
Wed 16 Aug 8.00pm
Thu 17 Aug 8.00pm (Post-Show Q&A)
Fri 18 Aug 8.00pm
Sat 19 Aug 8.00pm
This show is a lock-out performance. No latecomers will be admitted. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don't miss out.
Refunds will not be issued to latecomers.
TICKETS
FULL PRICE
$45.00
CONCESSION*
$35.00
PREVIEW
$28.00
20 at $20**
$20.00
MOB TIX
$20.00
*Seniors, Student, MEAA, Health Care and Low Income card holders
**Limited to 20 tickets per performance
CREDITS
A co-creation between Born in a Taxi’s artistic directors, Penny Baron and Carolyn Hanna, and Musician/ sound artist, Michael Havir
PERFORMERS/ ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Penny Baron
Carolyn Hanna
MUSICIAN AND SOUND ARTIST
Michael Havir
IMPROVISATION COACH AND PROVOCATEUR
Andrew Morrish
LIGHTING DESIGN
Bronwyn Pringle
IMPROVISED LIGHTING OPERATION
Bronwyn Pringle
Jamie Turner
STAGE MANAGER
Liz Everett
IMPROVISING VISUAL DRAMATURG
Dagmara Gieysztor
MEET THE ARTIST -
Born in a Taxi
Born in a Taxi are one of Melbourne’s most highly regarded physical theatre ensembles and creators of contemporary performance. Renowned for their immediacy, responsiveness and interaction with their audience, mixing dance with humour, the profound with the profane and the familiar with the unlikely. Their diverse performance backgrounds and trademark methodology in ensemble movement improvisation have created a cross-disciplinary style that inhabits the nexus between theatre and dance.
