
BLANK SPACE PRODUCTIONS PRESENT
The Irreducible
BY COHAN AND COLLABORATORS

8 - 25 APRIL | EXPLOSIVES FACTORY
BY COHAN AND COLLABORATORS
Step into a vivid, otherworldly environment where surfaces ooze, webs breathe and the human shifts between forms. The Irreducible is a visceral performance exploring ‘trans’formation, symbiosis, and the porous boundary between the body, identity and the world around us.
With striking visuals, unsettling choreography, and a surreal soundscape, this piece invites audiences to witness an eerie cycle of emergence, decay, and renewal—where nothing is static, and even the space itself seems sentient.
Award-winning director-performer Cohan investigates the boundaries between the queer body, the self and object. Their practice brings composition and design elements into the process as essential collaborators, treating the body as an extension of space and soundscape. Founded in 2016, their company Blank Space Productions has built a reputation for bold, transformative theatre driven by a founding principle of transformation.
Now landing in Naarm, this production delivers Blank Space’s provocative and physical work with full force — offering a post-drag bent to movement and theatre that shimmers between unsettling and exhilarating. Come witness what happens when form dissolves, identity shifts and space itself becomes alive.
VENUE
EXPLOSIVES FACTORY
Rear Laneway, 67 Inkerman Street, St Kilda
DURATION
60 minutes
WARNINGS
Nudity and Strobe Lighting
ACCESSIBILITY
Explosives Factory is accessed via a flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible.
“this piece is choreographed to perfection… raw and seemingly spontaneous”
- Isolated Nation, on 'Sudden Skies'
“The audience is made aware they are stepping into a world unlike our own… begins with intensity and doesn’t let up until the end”
- Fourth Wall Media, on 'Sudden Skies'


DATES + TIMES
Wednesday 8 April - 7:30pm (Preview)
Thursday 9 April - 7:30pm (Opening)
Friday 10 April - 7:30pm
Saturday 11 April - 7:30pm
Tuesday 14 April - 7:30pm
Wednesday 15 April - 7:30pm
Thursday 16 April - 7:30pm
Friday 17 April - 7:30pm
Saturday 18 April - 7:30pm
Tuesday 21 April - 7:30pm
Wednesday 22 April - 7:30pm
Thursday 23 April - 7:30pm
Friday 24 April - 7:30pm
Saturday 25 April - 7:30pm

Theatre Works has a lockout policy for latecomers. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don't miss out.
Refunds will not be issued to latecomers.
TICKETS
FULL PRICE
CONCESSION*
PREVIEW
$38.00
$30.00
$28.00
*Seniors, Student, MEAA, Health Care and Low Income card holders

CREDITS
LEAD CREATIVE / PERFORMER
Cohan
CREATIVE PRODUCER / DRAMATURG
Kat Glass
PROJECTION DESIGN
Mia Holton
COMPOSER
Di Drew
MARKETING LEAD
Angelina Lee
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Fia Haugh

MEET THE ARTIST
COHAN
Cohan is a theatre maker and Creative Director of Blank Space Productions. A VCA Master of Directing graduate (First Class Honours) and Actors Centre Australia alumnus, they create bold, physical works exploring transformation, queerness and the tension between body, identity and space. Recent credits include Cruel Britannia (Arts Centre Melbourne, 2024), Unbound (The Blue Room Theatre, 2021), Threshold (2018), Sudden Skies (2018) and Alone Outside (2017). Their short film Sunday received multiple festival awards, and they were named Best Emerging Director at Seattle’s Post Alley Film Festival. Cohan’s work challenges boundaries and invites audiences into immersive, interrogative performance worlds.


