Apocalypse Perth

Always Working Artists  (Blue Room World First)

	Dates: (Preview Wed 22 Oct), Thu 23 – Sat 25 Oct, Tue 28 Oct – Sat 1 Nov, Tue 4 – Sat 8 Nov 'Meet the artists' on Tue 28 Oct
	Time: Tues - Sat 6:30pm, plus Sat 8 Nov 9:15pm Sat 25 Oct 2pm matinee ONLY
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The Blue Room Studio 22 October to 8 November 2008

Written by Kate Rice
Directed by Jeremy Rice
Sound Composition by Ashley Gibson Greig
Lighting Design by Lucy Birkenshaw

Featuring: Greg McNeill, Whitney Richards, Vanessa Trengove and Craig Williams.

In January 2008 an amateur theatre group based in Perth’s northern suburbs put on a show called Rock Apocalypse.

In February an anonymous review was posted online. It was not favourable. What followed was an extraordinary online exchange of observations, criticisms, insults and invective.

It was a passionate debate over the quality of the performers, the lack of air-conditioning, the price of drinks at interval, the process of choosing and casting a play, what a paying audience can and can’t expect, and just who is entitled to be rude about it all anyway; all played out on the internet, where everyone is a performer and no one is safe.

“Shame. Shame on you all. We asked for a review, not a subscription to S**t-slinging Weekly.”

Apocalypse Perth is a verbatim theatre piece based on the online forum and interviews with those who took part in it and those who were crushed by it. See it and say what you really think.

Visit the Always Working Artists blog: alwaysworkingartists.blogspot.com

Also view the current Independant Theatre Australia flamewars: http://www.theatre.asn.au/billboard_bulletins/it_doesnt_sound_like_a_very_interesting_concept_for_a_play

Part of the ‘SILVER’ ARTRAGE Festival 25th Anniversary Edition.

Tickets:

Full $22 / Conc. $15
Blue Room Members: Full $18 / Conc. $12