Only one day to go to the opening on Tuesday 4 August.
Neither streamed theatre, nor film, this festival is unlike any other: the six projects have been created entirely from the ground up, specifically for audiences in the digital space, resulting in uniquely immersive, interactive and unusual experiences.
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BOOK ‘PAY AS YOU CAN’ TICKETS
We’d love you to pay what you can for the tickets, but we understand that COVID-19 has presented a difficult situation for some people. So, if you find yourself unable to pay, we’d still love you to watch, with $0 tickets available for all shows.
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Roundabout
Live streamed on Twitch
Written and directed by Sean Stewart4, 5, 8 Aug, 8pm AEST
7–9 Aug, 11am AEST
Indicative running time 100 minutes including three intervals6 characters. 3 bodies. 1 meddlesome audience. So many things could go wrong.
An interactive farce for the digital age.
Science fiction meets comedy as three young school leavers in an awkward love triangle meet on the video platform Twitch. In the chat channel are three skylarking digital humans who yearn to be made flesh for the first time in 13,000 years. With the help of the audience they possess the actors.
Begin your journey into Roundabout on the show’s Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages.
Content warning – MA15+ (adult themes, flashing lights)
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Ghost Lights
Live streamed on Facebook and YouTube
Concept and directed by Katy Alexander6, 8, 9 Aug, 7.30pm AEST
8, 9 Aug, 11am AEST
Indicative running time 45–60 minutesDon’t miss
the powerful concluding performance of this international participative project, connecting audiences around the world in a celebration of the importance of theatre.
As all performance venues across the world went dark during the COVID-19 crisis, the old tradition of the ghost light was revived – leaving on a single naked bulb on a stand to ensure that an empty theatre is never left in total darkness.
Join us as some of theatre’s great characters perform iconic monologues, and newly minted words. Untethered from their plays and plots, they have broken out.
Begin your journey into Ghost Lights on the show’s Facebook or Instagram.
Suitable for all audiences.
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Six
Live streamed on dedicated website
Written by MFA (Writing for Performance) students:
Aiden Ossovani, Bradley Ward, Sophie Davis and Leah Tolmosoff
Directed by Leticia Cáceres5, 6 Aug, 9.30pm AEST
7 Aug, 11pm AEST
8 Aug, 7pm AEST
9 Aug, 1pm AEST
Indicative running time 50–65 minutesIt’s Saturday night during lockdown. A group of strangers somehow end up in the same Zoom meeting. Mysteriously, one participant’s window is completely black. While the characters speculate about who is behind the window, their grasp on normality gradually crumbles as a series of strange and frightening phenomena unfolds.
Content warning – MA15+ (horror themes)
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Lunacy
Live streamed on dedicated website
Written and directed by Pierce Wilcox4, 6, 7 Aug, 9pm AEST
8 Aug, 1pm, 7pm AEST
9 Aug, 11am AEST
Indicative running time 90 minutesImmerse yourself in this epic 1960s pulp sci-fi adventure.
A scientist has uncovered a mysterious alien artefact on the surface of the Moon.
A daredevil explorer is the only one brave enough to conquer its impossible depths.
A driven team race to understand the artefact before it kills them – or they tear each other apart ..
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Begin your journey into Lunacy by investigating the mystery of Project Eclipse at the Archive, where you can unlock footage and images that will help you prepare for the culminative experience of this extraordinary project: a live mission to the Moon.
Content warning – MA15+ (guns, violence and sexual references)
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A Pox on Both Your Houses
Live streamed on ZOOM and broadcasted
Written and directed by Deborah PollardPart 1 ‘Tis a Zoom Bomber Juliet!: 4 Aug, 7pm AEST
Part 2 Dear Betty: 5 Aug, 7pm AEST
Part 3 A Dinner for Two: 6 Aug, 7pm AEST
Broadcast of all 3 parts: 7–9 Aug, 7pm AEST and 9 Aug, 11am AEST
Indicative running time 30 minutes each part
Take your seat at home over three nights as three love stories, each set in a world of separation, gradually connect then resolve in a wondrous moment of connection with the online audience.
Content warning – MA15+ (adult themes and coarse language)
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Lockdown: Love and Death in the Age of COVID
Broadcasted on dedicated website
Directed by Nigel Jamieson
Devised with the Cast and Company5–9 Aug, 8pm AEST
8 Aug, 11am AEST
Indicative running time 90–100 minutes
It’s March 2020 and Australia joins the world in lockdown. Five fictitious, final-year acting students meet on Zoom as their worlds and lives fall apart and they make increasingly unsuccessful attempts to hold it all together.
Begin your journey on the Lockdown website.
Content warning – MA15+ (adult themes, nudity, coarse language, sexual references, drug references, mental health references)
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