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THEATRE AUSTRALIA LADY EATS APPLE BACK TO BACK THEATRE M T W OCTOBER 10 11 12 17 18 19 T 06 13 20 F S S 07 08 09 14 15 16 21 22 23 SAT— WED 8PM TUE — WED also 1PM SUN also 2PM 1 hr, no interval $79 / $69 Students $25 Transaction fees may apply www.festival.melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne 1300 182 183 “A vital sensesharpening tonic for theatregoers who feel they’ve seen it all.” NEW YORK TIMES ON ~ THE GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH “Turns the notion of theatre and the everyday inside out.” MORNING HERALD ~ ONSYDNEY SMALL METAL OBJECTS WED 12 OCT 1PM, post-show This project is assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Carriageworks, Wiener Festwochen, and with support from the Keir Foundation and Thyne Reid Foundation. Director BRUCE GLADWIN Devisors and Performers MARK DEANS, ROMANY LATHAM, SARAH MAINWARING, SCOTT PRICE & SIMON LAHERTY We are finite in an infinite world: the punchline of existence is how little of it we are given. An anxious god whips up the universe to garner praise. A mesmerist makes concrete the internal workings of the mind. A new Adam and Eve emerge in the unlikeliest of spaces. Australia’s Back to Back Theatre is inarguably one of the most exciting and urgent companies working in the world today. Balancing on the liminal edge of possibility, the company’s largest scale work to date charts deep new trails into the landscape of the unconscious. Collapsing the space between the epic and the everyday and divining the mythic in the mundane, Lady Eats Apple is a cosmic waltz from the Garden of Eden to a medieval snowstorm to the urban jungle we live in. Presented with Funded by donations from the #melbfest ARTIST TALK WORLD PREMIERE ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE HAMER HALL // 21