This intimate and playful 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 chat with the audience in real time from their bedrooms.
The intergenerational conversations that are set in motion forces us to rethink the multitude of ways in which knowledge is produced, acquired and shared. Power is re-organised and re-imagined. The teacher and the student, the adult and the child, the performer and the audience, begin to shift and entangle.
Together we are here, in this moment, trying to work it all out...
Body of Knowledge is a surprising, curious, and tender experience exploring how we pay attention (or not) to our own and others’ bodies existing across generations.
Co-programmed as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2024
When
Saturday 5 October, 7.30pm
Sunday 6 October, 7.30pm
Tuesday 8 October, 7.30pm
Wednesday 9 October, 7.30pm
Thursday 10 October, 6.30pm
Where
Bowery Theatre
St Albans Community Centre
33 Princess St, St Albans
Wheelchair Accessible
Assistive Hearing available
Tickets
Tickets available via the Melbourne Fringe site here
For audiences aged 18 and over only