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Site UnSeen single work   drama  
Note: Principal art-makers Graham Pitts and Robyn Szechtman have worked in a close collaboration with more than twenty key community members for over twelve months.
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Site UnSeen
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'Spend a night with the street as your home.

Venture into the underworld of "Site UnSeen" where social exclusion and homelessness collide with mirth, satire, beauty and grim reality. An interactive multimedia theatre piece, Site UnSeen literally walks its audience through the darkened streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute a life of homelessness.

Created by art and theatre workers collaborating with communities of people who have experienced homelessness, "Site UnSeen" utilises iconic locations around St Kilda to present the reality of those who are most invisible, and has been co-created by people who have been there.

From the initial Circus of Exclusion to the final Kaleidoscope of Multiple Exits, the show discards the veils surrounding invisible people and places, to take you on an extraordinary journey where the usual codes of behaviour do not apply ... or help you survive. "Site Unseen" combines visual installations, images, simulation, elephants, sound-scapes and actors. Source: www.onlymelbourne.com.au/ (Sighted 11/10/2011).

Production Details

  • World premiere presented by The City of Port Phillip, The Port Phillip Community Group, Many Moons Group and Sacred Heart Mission at various locations commencing at the St Kilda Lower Esplanade Carpark, on to Alfred Square and then Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda, 7-21 October 2011.

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Works about this Work

Salutary Reminders That the Muse Sings Strongly Through Disability Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 31 October 2011; (p. 17)
Untitled John Bailey , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 October 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Site UnSeen 2011 single work drama
Canvas Cath Taylor , Ant Bridgeman , Margie Howlett , Judith Jackson , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 October 2011; (p. 17)
Immersive Work Insults Homeless Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 October 2011; (p. 17)

— Review of Site UnSeen 2011 single work drama
Immersive Work Insults Homeless Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 October 2011; (p. 17)

— Review of Site UnSeen 2011 single work drama
Untitled John Bailey , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 October 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Site UnSeen 2011 single work drama
Canvas Cath Taylor , Ant Bridgeman , Margie Howlett , Judith Jackson , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 October 2011; (p. 17)
Salutary Reminders That the Muse Sings Strongly Through Disability Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 31 October 2011; (p. 17)
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