Laryngectomy: Parables and Homilies on the Freedom of Speech
Renegade Productions
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Dates: Time: Duration (approx): 75 mins |
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Image: Shawn Tan |
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PICA Performance Space
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Written, directed and designed by Joe Lui Shang Yu
Assistant direction by Mikala Westall
Co-written with performer Demelza Rogers
Also featuring collaborators Jessica Rawnsley, Paul Grabovac and Chris Donnolly
Dramaturgy by Katya Shevtsov
Production and Stage Management by Matt Marino
Renegade Productions return to flex their political, poetic, and vicious devised-theatre muscle with their acclaimed and controversial call to arms - Laryngectomy.
200 years ago the world was set on fire as people rose up against tyranny amidst the global call of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!” A principle fundamental to those revolutionary times was the idea that free speech should be protected at all cost.
It’s a shame this is still as controversial in 2012 as during the French Revolution!
Governments are slowly chipping away at this sacred, blood-stained right while even “liberal” belief is being eroded under the guise of political correctness.
Renegade Productions goes for the jugular in Laryngectomy: a heartfelt, interactive performance installation attacking the worms that have dined too well upon the sacred ideals of free speech.
WARNING: Contains violence, coarse language, nudity, and the use of smoke machine
Book through The Blue Room Theatre or PICA to get your tickets for $25 (that's $5 less than FRINGE WORLD prices!)
