NightTime: Live and Let Die

Overview

If Life of Pi has had you pondering life’s big questions, here's your chance to pursue your ideas in the flesh with some live theatre. Performance Space is hosting another instalment of Nighttime, its popular evening of short dramatic works curated by a local artist, this time to tie in with the provocative Matters of Life and Death program.

Eddie Sharp (the Late Night Library series, Some Film Museums I Have Known) will be curating this round, titled NightTime: Live and Let Die. A bunch of independent artists will bring their most surreal imaginings, terrifying nightmares, and outlandish black humour to the stage for one night. Those featured include Lucinda Gleeson, who'll present Walter Burley Griffin Has a Lot to Answer For; Karli Munn with Raining Blood; and Julian Day with The Regret Tree.

Whether you've spent your life sitting under a tree contemplating Hamlet repeatedly or drinking your way into oblivion so as to avoid turning your mind to mortality at all, this show is bound to leave you with something to think about.

Also included in Performance Space's Matters of Life and Death program of Aussie and international works is dance piece Performance Anxiety, macabre foodie event The Last Supper, not-so-funhouse Unsettling Suite, and the Death Knocks Supper Club of impolite dinner table conversation. Read what the artists had to say in our feature 'Seven Positive Ways to Think About Death at Performance Space'.