Elbow Room Offer Melbourne Audiences a Limited Season of their Award-Winning Production, Prehistoric
After sold out seasons at the Brisbane Festival and 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Elbow Room's award-winning production, Prehistoric, returns for a limited season at the Meat Market Stables in North Melbourne. #PrehistoricMelb #ElbowRoom
Venue: Meat Market Stables
Address: 1 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne
Date: 20 - 27 July, 2018
Time: Tues - Fri 7:30pm, Sun 6:30pm / Sat 21 July - Performance and then Elbow Room 10th Birthday Party 5pm
Ticket: $30 Full, $25 Concession
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Call: 0420 452 088
Address: 1 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne
Date: 20 - 27 July, 2018
Time: Tues - Fri 7:30pm, Sun 6:30pm / Sat 21 July - Performance and then Elbow Room 10th Birthday Party 5pm
Ticket: $30 Full, $25 Concession
Buy / Ticket: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=391361&bof=1
Web: http://www.elbowroomproductions.com/
: https://www.facebook.com/elbowroomproductions?fref=ts
: https://www.instagram.com/elbowroomtheatre/?hl=en
: https://www.facebook.com/events/1930564106954674/
EMail: elbowroomproductions@gmail.com
Call: 0420 452 088
After sold out seasons at the Brisbane Festival and 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Elbow Room's award-winning production, 'Prehistoric', returns for a limited season at the Meat Market Stables in North Melbourne.
Running from the 20th to the 27th of July, this blistering punk theatre gig rips into our civil liberties, and our capacity to resist. Set in 1979 in Brisbane, 'Prehistoric' takes us into the lives of Deb, Nick, Pete, and Rachel as they meet at a gig, start a band, and deal with the repercussions of fighting back against the system. Based on first-hand accounts of living, playing music, and making history under Queensland's notoriously corrupt and brutal Bjelke-Petersen government, Prehistoric offers an iconoclastic and hilarious take on the pivotal "punk moment" that still echoes today.
"We grew up in Brisbane in the 1990s, and experienced the social and cultural effects of the Bjelke-Petersen administration, which only ended in 1989. A number of our friends and colleagues still have scars from this period, some physical.", add Elbow Room Co-Artistic directors Marcel Dorney and Emily Tomlins.
"Prehistoric's central question of how culture - what we do together - can resist the pull of authoritarian nationalism remains all too relevant. This is a story of a diverse group of dissident young people finding themselves in a fight against an ethnocentric, backward-looking nationalism, and it will resonate with many young people today."
Celebrating their 10th year in action with this season, Elbow Room are an award-winning Melbourne-based theatre company committed to the development of writing and performance making, in order to test and strengthen the relationship between art and society, and the capacity of that relationship to create change. They are renowned for their intellectual and artistic integrity and considered one of the leading independent theatre companies in Australia.
Written and directed by Marcel Dorney and with Brigid Gallacher, Grace Cummings, Sahil Saluja, and Zachary Giles Pidd performing and playing original live music throughout, 'Prehistoric' is a gritty, intelligent, and pertinent addition to the 2018 Melbourne arts calendar.
WINNER - Best Performance (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2014)
WINNER - Best Writing (Green Room Awards, 2015)
"Exhilarating, gut-wrenching, evocative"¦ leaves you giddy with excitement and feeling utterly alive." - Richard Watts (Artshub/Triple R)
"An outstanding play... as raw as the punk rebellion that it documents... perfectly crafted [and] rendered with such clarity, always balanced against the awareness of futility... you can't ask for more from any production." - The Australian
Written and Directed by Marcel Dorney
Performed by Brigid Gallacher, Grace Cummings, Sahil Saluja and Zachary Giles Pidd
Dramaturgy by Emily Tomlins
Lighting Design by Kris Chainey
Creative Producer: Samantha Butterworth
Running from the 20th to the 27th of July, this blistering punk theatre gig rips into our civil liberties, and our capacity to resist. Set in 1979 in Brisbane, 'Prehistoric' takes us into the lives of Deb, Nick, Pete, and Rachel as they meet at a gig, start a band, and deal with the repercussions of fighting back against the system. Based on first-hand accounts of living, playing music, and making history under Queensland's notoriously corrupt and brutal Bjelke-Petersen government, Prehistoric offers an iconoclastic and hilarious take on the pivotal "punk moment" that still echoes today.
"We grew up in Brisbane in the 1990s, and experienced the social and cultural effects of the Bjelke-Petersen administration, which only ended in 1989. A number of our friends and colleagues still have scars from this period, some physical.", add Elbow Room Co-Artistic directors Marcel Dorney and Emily Tomlins.
"Prehistoric's central question of how culture - what we do together - can resist the pull of authoritarian nationalism remains all too relevant. This is a story of a diverse group of dissident young people finding themselves in a fight against an ethnocentric, backward-looking nationalism, and it will resonate with many young people today."
Celebrating their 10th year in action with this season, Elbow Room are an award-winning Melbourne-based theatre company committed to the development of writing and performance making, in order to test and strengthen the relationship between art and society, and the capacity of that relationship to create change. They are renowned for their intellectual and artistic integrity and considered one of the leading independent theatre companies in Australia.
Written and directed by Marcel Dorney and with Brigid Gallacher, Grace Cummings, Sahil Saluja, and Zachary Giles Pidd performing and playing original live music throughout, 'Prehistoric' is a gritty, intelligent, and pertinent addition to the 2018 Melbourne arts calendar.
WINNER - Best Performance (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2014)
WINNER - Best Writing (Green Room Awards, 2015)
"Exhilarating, gut-wrenching, evocative"¦ leaves you giddy with excitement and feeling utterly alive." - Richard Watts (Artshub/Triple R)
"An outstanding play... as raw as the punk rebellion that it documents... perfectly crafted [and] rendered with such clarity, always balanced against the awareness of futility... you can't ask for more from any production." - The Australian
Written and Directed by Marcel Dorney
Performed by Brigid Gallacher, Grace Cummings, Sahil Saluja and Zachary Giles Pidd
Dramaturgy by Emily Tomlins
Lighting Design by Kris Chainey
Creative Producer: Samantha Butterworth