Overview
Find yourself washed up on a tropical island with two spoiled kidults and their long-suffering assistants in a new, bizarre and disturbingly colourful play Great Island, "with a lot more sex, violence and Heart of Darkness than your average island getaway."
Showing at Redfern's 107 Projects, Great Island marks the debut of new Sydney theatre group Beside Ourselves Collective, who've improvised, developed and birthed an "utterly disrepectful" (their words) new adaptation of Pierre de Marivaux's 1725 farce L'Ile des esclaves. When the island's mysterious ruler submits our washed up protagonists to a subversive experiment, the servants become the masters in a crazy, coconutty class war. Expect to laugh when least appropriate.
Steered by director Pierce Wilcox (of the Australian Chamber Opera, but believe us, this ain't no opera), Beside Ourselves take de Marivaux's play to new levels of weird with an ensemble of glorious fools: theatresports champions Harry Milas and Rob Johnson (Mantaur), Anna Chase (TV’s The Checkout), Eleni Schumacher (Dead Time at 107 Projects) and Nicholas Starte (Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Dust).
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When
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - Sunday, August 9, 2015
Wednesday, July 29 - Sunday, August 9, 2015
Where
107 Projects107 Redfern Street
Redfern