Motortown
This One Show (Blue Room WA First)
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The Blue Room Theatre
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Directed by Marisa Gareffa
Produced and assisted by Renato Fabretti
Costume Design by Skye Hegarty
Lighting Design by Karen Cook
Choreography by Natalya Alessi
Music compossed by Steve Hearne
Artwork by Claudia Scalisi
Featuring Richie Flanagan, Glenn Hall, Ben Russell, Melanie Munt, Amanda Woodhams, Anita Erceg, James Helm.
"...it hit the first night audience like a slap in the face... provocative, controversial and hard to watch..." - The Australian
Written during the London bombings of 2005, Motortown is a fierce and violent response to the anti-war movement - and to the war itself.
"I don't blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it . . . It's just you come back to this."
Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front.
"British playwright Simon Stephens wanted to write, he says, a play 'which inculpated more than it absolved. I wanted to write about my guilt in creating and perpetuating the culture that drove these wars'…thankfully, Motortown is too angry, too pitilessly honest and too sardonically funny to be earnest." - The Australian
Chaotic and complex, powerful and provocative, Motortown serves-up a volatile and morally insecure world …pickled in vinegar.
Tickets:
Full $22 / Conc. $15
Blue Room Members: Full $18 / Conc. $12
