Track 8, Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Concept and Direction
Samara Hersch
Dramaturg
Maria Roessler
Set Design
Belle Santos
Stage Management
Cassandra Fumi
Lighting Design
Jen Hector
Sound Design
Fred Rodrigues
Youth Support
Alex Walker
Artistic Advisor (DAS Graduate School)
Mette Ingvartsen
Made with and performed by a team of teenagers from across Melbourne, Sydney, UK, Belgium and the Netherlands.
"Hersch’s art is powerful, visceral, and profoundly imaginative... she engages with universal topics in a transcendent and moving manner." The Theatre Times
This intimate new work, performed by teenagers who call into the theatre on mobile phones, is a powerful meditation on age and change: changes to bodies, changes in attitude, and changes to life. Questions of boundaries, sexuality, pleasure, shame, pain, consent, ageing, grief, and death are all on the table as teens from across Australia and around the globe chat with the audience in real time from their bedrooms. Body of Knowledge is a surprising, challenging, and tender experience exploring how we pay attention (or not) to our own and others’ bodies co-existing in time and space.
Duration: 90 minutes (no interval)
Restricted to audiences aged 18+
Dive deeper...
Join Samara Hersch and fellow Liveworks artist Joel Bray (Daddy) in conversation with theatre maker Roslyn Oades as they explore the boundaries of audience participation, consent and dangerous social dynamics in contemporary performance.
Body of Knowledge was commissioned by SICK! Festival and Performance Space, realised in the framework of the European Project Be SpectACTive!, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.
