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| Photo: Ahmarnya Price |
Created
by interdisciplinary ensemble The
Chaotic Order in
collaboration with Ahmarnya
Price THE
WAITING PLACE is an intimate performance work that combines
animation, live performance and ping pong balls in a series of short
vignettes. Each scene in The Waiting Place is a game. How each
performer chooses to get from a to b to c is up to them and in this
way they able to find their own processes for driving, claiming and
bringing this very particular and idiosyncratic world to life.
“The
Waiting Place is
at once somewhere and nowhere, a place we all find ourselves. It’s
where we confront life’s paradoxes and the absurdities that
variously define, embrace and confound us. Each of The
Chaotic Order’s
performers is regarded as having an intellectual disability. It’s
something that informs the piece, but isn’t the driving influence.
For that, we look to insight, humanity and shared experience. The
resulting work is darkly humorous, transcending social, ethical and
cultural definitions. It’s a rethinking of our perceived
differences, and a call to what is common between us”.
-
Aden Rolfe. 2011.
The
Waiting Place premiered as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival
at Footscray Community Arts Centre and won the Melbourne Fringe
Festival Award for 'Most Original Australian Work'.
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| Photo: Rachel Main |
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| Photo: Ahmarnya Price |
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| Photo: Rachel Main |
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| Photo: Ahmarnya Price |
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| Photo: Rachel Main |
