Crave & Lot's Wife

Performance Dates/Times Wed 28th April 8pm (Lot's Wife Preview, all tickets $15) Thu 29th April 8pm Fri 30th April 8pm Sat 1st May 8pm Sun 2nd May 5pm Tue 4th May 8pm Wed 5th May 8pm Thu 6th May 8pm Fri 7th May 8pm Sat 8th May 2pm and 8pm Location PACT Theatre, Erskineville Tickets $25 Adult $20 Concession (Children under 18, Tertiary Students with ID & Seniors) A $2 perticket charge will apply if bought at the door (cash only). Available through http://www.trybooking.com/EFC CRAVE Written by Sarah Kane Directed by Felicity Nicol With: Amanda Stephens-Lee, Rebecca Wood, Richard Hilliar, Maurizio Degliesposti. Life is a series of moments. Moments of celebration, loss, love, and banality. But all are moments, and everything passes as quickly as it comes. But what happens if a moment doesn’t pass you by. What happens when the promise of something new is replaced with repetition. What happens when the world stops? Sarah Kane's Crave is an ambitious work which strives to find hope in the darkest of corners. Set against a cold urban wasteland, four characters attempt to find a connection in an echoless world. Trapped by memory, grudges and faults these haunted people struggle to make sense of themselves and the fractured lives they have lived. By taking our world and turning up the volume Kane creates a cacophony which fearlessly shines light on all that is glorious and torturous about being human. Through the haze of this polluted world Kane ultimately leaves us with a message of hope and comfort, for what we seek is closer than we think. LOT’S WIFE Written and directed by Carolyn Eccles With: Emily Watson, Jacob Thomas, Julian Wong, Lara Lightfoot, Lucas Connolly “Escape for thy life; look not behind thee.” Genesis 19:17. Lot’s Wife, a physical retelling of the biblical story, mixes classical images with modern themes of stagnancy, disconnection and the desperate plea behind the act of story-telling, to deliver one woman’s act of choosing to stand still. A world within one woman, stuck in the act of looking back. Lot’s Wife is a mixed text and movement piece that invites the audience gently to participate in an attempted releasing and acknowledgement of the sad heroism of defending stagnancy. “Come and sit with me by the fire and let us tell each other what we see” Lot’s Wife is the second development of a project Eccles has been working on since early 2008. Based on the biblical story of the very human experience of remaining trapped in the past, Eccles is keen to develop the tradition of devised theatre within the Sydney theatre scene. Believing that the process of improvising and then refining leads to the creation of surprising images and leads the performer away from the debilitating editor of the ego. Eccles will be experimenting with the juxtapositions of light & dark, stillness & uproar, dark comedy & movement to explore the ideas of heroism, guilt & impermanence. DESIGN CREW Set Design - Pia Leong Costume Design - Lucy Thornett Lighting Design - Teegan Lee Sound Design - Joseph Dutaillis Graphic Design - Harriet Watts