whale

Northcote Town Hall and Monash University Sound Gallery, May 2019
Darebin Speakeasy and Monash University
 

Here’s what you need to know: The ocean is rising. We caused it. We’re going to fix it but someone has to die.

Can you imagine a world where political inaction and climate change has brought the earth to the point of catastrophe? How did we let it get this bad? Could anything have been done about it? Or was it inevitable? Whale is a participatory new work where the personal must become the political. The scientists and politicians can’t save us but don’t worry: we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We can save the world, provided we are ready to make the sacrifice.

Winner of the 2018 Max Afford Playwright’s Award. “It’s rare to find a piece of theatre that explores climate change with such a compelling mix of playfulness and authority… it is brimming with imagination and ingenuity.”
 

playwright - Fleur Kilpatrick
director – Katrina Cornwell
with – Sonya Suares, Chanella Macri and Sarah Walker
set and costume designer – Emily Collett
lighting designer – Lisa Mibus
composer and sound designer - Raya Slavin
AV - Justin Gardam
stage manager - Liberty Gilbert
producer - Claire Portek
dramaturg - Roslyn Oades
AV design - Sarah Walker
production photos - Theresa Harrison

‘Director Katrina Cornwell and the design team (composer and sound: Raya Slavin, set and costume: Emily Collett, lighting: Lisa Mibus, AV: Sarah Walker) create a world that is far more than the one envisioned in Kilpatrick's writing. Whale is written to allow other creatives to make a work that belongs to everyone. In the same way that the audiences are trusted to be so vital to the result that everyone puts on their party hats without hesitation.’
Sometimes Melbourne