A Social Service
Malthouse Theatre
18 August 2015
Beckett Theatre
to 29 August
malthousetheatre.com.au
Separately and together, Nicola Gunn and David Woods makes a rare type of theatre that genuinely challenges ideas and opinions. In A Social Service at Malthouse Theatre, they find a line between reality and satire that's so sharp that a slip either side could result in serious injury.
A Social Service is about a semi-fictional artist (Gunn) who wants to affect change in a public housing estate and is confronted with the failure of the system that funds her and by her own attitudes towards change, art and the people she thinks want and need changing. Made by artists who couldn't do the site-specific community-involved piece they wanted to do – so they had to make the work in a theatre – it's self awareness is like the endless advertising image that has a picture of itself with a picture of itself and so on. But somewhere in this spiral, the image changes and the downward momentum is reversed.
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The full review is on Aussietheatre.com and will be published here in a few days.
Malthouse Theatre
18 August 2015
Beckett Theatre
to 29 August
malthousetheatre.com.au
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| David Woods & Nicola Gunn. Photo by Pia Johnson |
Separately and together, Nicola Gunn and David Woods makes a rare type of theatre that genuinely challenges ideas and opinions. In A Social Service at Malthouse Theatre, they find a line between reality and satire that's so sharp that a slip either side could result in serious injury.
...
The full review is on Aussietheatre.com and will be published here in a few days.