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'Two children create a documentary of a history they cannot remember.
'Inspired by the biblical BOOK OF EXODUS, Fraught Outfit’s latest production is a radical, poetic response to an ancient narrative of plagues and miracles, violence and division, punishment and liberation, the drowned and the saved.' (Production summary)
Production Details
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Performed by Fraught Outfit at Theatre Works, St Kilda Victoria : 31 May 2017 - 18 June 2017.
Director: Adena Jacobs.
Dramaturg: Aaron Orzech.
Lighting and AV Designer: Emma Valente.
Associate Artist: Alex Walker.
Composer: Max Lyandvert.
Designer: Kate Davis.
Director's attachment: Tove Due.
Cast: Sol Feldman, Ezra Justin, Malik Keegan, AND Tarana Verma.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Toward an Ethical Practice : Child Performers in Contemporary Performance for Adult Audiences
2019
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— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , May no. 74 2019; (p. 189-216)'This article responds to the recent and rapid rise in the practice, within contemporary theatre-making, of creating new performance work for adult audiences featuring children as performers and collaborators. Within this work there is a tension between the desire for a representation of the authentic voice and lived experience of the child performer and the poetic function of the performance. This question of the place of authenticity in work dogs much performance work created by professional artists with children for adult audiences and can shape the way artists approach the rehearsal process with child performers. I examine the creative and aesthetic strategies of creating work with child performers, and consider the pedagogical frames of actor practice that underpin this process, asking what an ethical dramaturgy for contemporary performance with children for adult audiences might look like.' (Publication abstract)
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Sight En Scene
2017
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 June 2017;
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Sight En Scene
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 June 2017; -
Toward an Ethical Practice : Child Performers in Contemporary Performance for Adult Audiences
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , May no. 74 2019; (p. 189-216)'This article responds to the recent and rapid rise in the practice, within contemporary theatre-making, of creating new performance work for adult audiences featuring children as performers and collaborators. Within this work there is a tension between the desire for a representation of the authentic voice and lived experience of the child performer and the poetic function of the performance. This question of the place of authenticity in work dogs much performance work created by professional artists with children for adult audiences and can shape the way artists approach the rehearsal process with child performers. I examine the creative and aesthetic strategies of creating work with child performers, and consider the pedagogical frames of actor practice that underpin this process, asking what an ethical dramaturgy for contemporary performance with children for adult audiences might look like.' (Publication abstract)