GROUND CONTROL AT NEXT WAVE
Following their 2014 award-winning sell-out Melbourne Fringe smash ANGRY SEXX, writer/performer Rachel Perks and director Bridget Balodis again team up to take cyberfeminism into the 22nd century in the brand new theatre work GROUND CONTROL, as part of the 2016 Next Wave Festival, Friday 6 until Saturday 14 May at the Northcote Town Hall. @next_wave #GroundControlNW
Venue: Northcote Town Hall
Address: 189 High St, Northcote
Date: 4 "“ 14 May 2016
Time: Tue"“Sat 7:45pm | Sat 14 May 4:15pm & 7:45pm | Sun 6:45pm
Ticket: $28/23
Buy / Ticket: http://2016.nextwave.org.au/#event=282
Web: http://2016.nextwave.org.au/#event=282
: https://www.facebook.com/events/1563882653941615/
Call: (03) 9329 9422
Address: 189 High St, Northcote
Date: 4 "“ 14 May 2016
Time: Tue"“Sat 7:45pm | Sat 14 May 4:15pm & 7:45pm | Sun 6:45pm
Ticket: $28/23
Buy / Ticket: http://2016.nextwave.org.au/#event=282
Web: http://2016.nextwave.org.au/#event=282
: https://www.facebook.com/events/1563882653941615/
Call: (03) 9329 9422
Following their 2014 award-winning sell-out Melbourne Fringe smash ANGRY SEXX, writer/performer Rachel Perks and director Bridget Balodis again team up to take cyberfeminism into the 22nd century in the brand new theatre work GROUND CONTROL, as part of the 2016 Next Wave Festival, Friday 6 until Saturday 14 May at the Northcote Town Hall.
GROUND CONTROL is motivated by the under-reported epidemic of violence against women in Australia, the impending mass displacement of millions of people by war and climate change, and exponential evolution of cyborg technology, Perks and Balodis seek to challenge political apathy by taking our world and fast forwarding it 100 years into the future to ask "What is it we're moving toward? And is it already too late to stop it?"
Perks plays Chris, an intergalactic voyager who has been launched across the universe by a humanity desperate to find Earth 2.0. Her home planet, beset by rising sea levels and global political collapse, has hung all of its hopes on this optimistic young astronaut who's main concern is whether she'll still be able to call her girlfriend from the new world. Awoken from stasis too early on her trip and alone in the vastness of space, a crisis of will unravels as Chris struggles to let go of the broken world she is leaving behind in order to secure humanity's future.
Drawing influence from gamer culture, classic 1970s sci-fi and conversations with Rachel's older sister (a real-life astrophysicist), GROUND CONTROL turns its laser guns on the collective internalized fears we all feel but struggle to find the words to communicate.
"Tackling some of the biggest issues our society is facing "“ inequality, violence, war, climate change "“ through feminist science fiction sounds like big ask, but if any artists can traverse these politics with wit and precision, it's Perks and Balodis," said Georgie Meagher, Artistic Director, Next Wave.
Written by Green Room nominee and 2014 Melbourne Festival Discovery Award winner Rachel Perks (ANGRY SEXX, We Get It), directed by Bridget Balodis (Jurassica, Kids Killing Kids) and mentored by Daniel Schlusser (The Complexity of Belonging, M+M) GROUND CONTROL is an experimental new work in search of the next frontier.
GROUND CONTROL is motivated by the under-reported epidemic of violence against women in Australia, the impending mass displacement of millions of people by war and climate change, and exponential evolution of cyborg technology, Perks and Balodis seek to challenge political apathy by taking our world and fast forwarding it 100 years into the future to ask "What is it we're moving toward? And is it already too late to stop it?"
Perks plays Chris, an intergalactic voyager who has been launched across the universe by a humanity desperate to find Earth 2.0. Her home planet, beset by rising sea levels and global political collapse, has hung all of its hopes on this optimistic young astronaut who's main concern is whether she'll still be able to call her girlfriend from the new world. Awoken from stasis too early on her trip and alone in the vastness of space, a crisis of will unravels as Chris struggles to let go of the broken world she is leaving behind in order to secure humanity's future.
Drawing influence from gamer culture, classic 1970s sci-fi and conversations with Rachel's older sister (a real-life astrophysicist), GROUND CONTROL turns its laser guns on the collective internalized fears we all feel but struggle to find the words to communicate.
"Tackling some of the biggest issues our society is facing "“ inequality, violence, war, climate change "“ through feminist science fiction sounds like big ask, but if any artists can traverse these politics with wit and precision, it's Perks and Balodis," said Georgie Meagher, Artistic Director, Next Wave.
Written by Green Room nominee and 2014 Melbourne Festival Discovery Award winner Rachel Perks (ANGRY SEXX, We Get It), directed by Bridget Balodis (Jurassica, Kids Killing Kids) and mentored by Daniel Schlusser (The Complexity of Belonging, M+M) GROUND CONTROL is an experimental new work in search of the next frontier.