EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS IN ONE HOUR
Someone asked us to do a show about the world's financial meltdown.
We decided to explain to the audience everything we know about the Global Financial Crisis. In One Hour.
This becomes slightly complicated when you consider that:
a) We are not experts on this subject, and
b) We decided not to do any research.
Also, GFC does sound a lot like KFC.
"Everything I Know... was durational in every sense, for the courageous performers, sometimes perilously over-taxed, and for an audience riding the wild waves of free association, coursing the looping illogic and withstanding the recurrent, battering dance passages and the final champagne spray. With wicked ease, but little to celebrate as bankers and brokers clawed back their bonuses, post left us nonetheless wiser about the way the human brain miscalculates and rationalises its way into disasters of the order of the GFC.
The sheer, manic drive of the performance, its bracing informality, the self-belief, its mad poetry and smatterings of GFC-reality sucked an initially wary audience into a vortex of nigh impossibly suspended disbelief."
— Keith Gallasch, REALTIME
TOURING
For tech specs & producer pack please contact viv@performinglines.org.au
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Belvoir Street Theatre (Sydney), December 2010
CREDITS
Devised and performed by post: Zoë Coombs Marr, Mish Grigor and Natalie Rose
Stage and Costume Design: post
Outside Eyes: Clare Grant, Emma Saunders
Lighting Design: Frank Mainoo.
Photography: James Brown
Performed as part of the double bill 'A Distressing Scenario', with Version 1.0. A joint commission through B Sharp and Version 1.0. This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW. This project has also been assisted by the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney.