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'THE RABBLE have developed LONE in collaboration with eleven children between the ages of 8 and 11 to create a bespoke performance installation to be experienced by one audience member at a time.
'The young performers have imagined a space designed to be inhabited alone –that audience members must navigate and perhaps catch a glimpse of their own childhood.' (Production summary)
Notes
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Warnings This is work is created by children for adults. It is a one-on-one installation that is designed to be experienced alone. Children under the age of 14 are not permitted to enter the theatre. This work has haze and strobe lighting.
Production Details
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Presented by Arts House in collaboration with with St Martins. Performed at Arts House, Melbourne 8 – 17 June, 2018.
Creators Emma Valente, Kate Davis
Set & Costume Designer Kate Davis
Lighting & Sound Designer Emma ValentePerformers The St Martins Ensemble
Producer Tahni Froudist
Production Management Rebecca Etchell, Gwen Holmberg-Gilchrist
Stage Manager Cass Fumi
Associate Artist Katrina Cornwell
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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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)
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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)
