Theatre

Transmission – into the dark

A radio-based live performance inviting you on a journey through suburban streets and into the dark

  • Dates 30 Sep - 05 Oct
  • Time 7:30pm, 8:00pm (90 minutes - This time is approximate - depending on your walking pace.)
  • Venues Secret Location in Newport
$55.00
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A blurred photograph of a person walking down a suburban street at nighttime with their back to the viewer.

Image Credit: Darren Gill

A blurred photograph of a person walking down a suburban street at nighttime with their back to the viewer.
  • Created by: one step at a time like this - Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, Julian Rickert, Sharon Thompson

  • In Association With: Richard Jordan Productions

  • Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and The Substation

It’s night time. You receive an address to a local residence. You listen to a mysterious radio broadcast – it seems to be talking to you. The transmission draws you towards unknown destinations – weaving through the streets of Newport and inward to the soul of the night. Transmission – into the dark invites audiences to embark on a nocturnal journey that interweaves site-specific radio, installation, night-walking and the sky. A night where the strange is real and the real is strange.

Transmission – into the dark commences at a residential address in Newport. All attendees are asked to supply their email and phone number upon booking their tickets. Ticket holders will receive an email prior to their booked session with further details and the local address. Please note that ticket sales will close three hours before each performance time.

Created by: one step at a time like this - Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, Julian Rickert, Sharon Thompson
Featuring: the voice and knowledge of N'arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM, Senior Boonwurrung Elder
Recorded singing voices: Susan Bamford Caleo, Sharon Thompson
Voice: Marcus McKenzie
Recorded speaking voices: N'arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM, Marcus McKenzie
Production & Stage Manager: Georgina Bright
Assistant Stage Manager: Jessica Elfick
Lighting Designer: John Ford
Creative Producer & Producer: Richard Jordan Productions
Sound Engineer: Darius Kedros
Set Designer: Eloise Kent
Radio host: Clair Korobacz
Assistant Stage Manager: Ellie Roth
Assistant Set Designer: Rockie Stone

Including music by Diimpa and Panoptique Electrical

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Transmission is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. With the support of the Besen Family Foundation.

About one step at a time like this

Employing an expanded notion of theatre, one step at a time like this create works that are location-responsive and gently participatory, often combining digital media with live performance. Their works are recognised nationally and internationally for inventive and outstanding approaches to place and audience-centric theatre. Engaging the co-authoring activity of the audience is a key element. Presenters include Vivid Sydney, Melbourne Festival, Arts House, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Situations UK, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts and London Festival Cultural Olympiad. one step work with producers Richard Jordan Productions (UK) and Intimate Spectacle (AU).

About The Substation

Amplifying artworks that transcend form, our multi-artform spaces are illuminated with the most urgent contemporary arts to inspire us to refigure problematic histories, imagine possible futures, and forge new connections. The Substation is the nation’s leader in multi-arts and experimental practice. We connect our continent’s most diverse communities in Naarm/ Melbourne’s west to the world through a program of international, national and local presentation, development and engagement opportunities.

thesubstation.org.au

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