Presented by The City of Port Phillip, The Port Phillip Community Group, Many Moons Group and Sacred Heart Mission, spend a night with the street as your home in this world premiere.
Venture into the underworld of Site UnSeen where social exclusion and homelessness collide with mirth, satire, beauty and grim reality. An interactive multimedia theatre piece, Site UnSeen literally walks its audience through the darkened streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute a life of homelessness.
Created by art and theatre workers collaborating with communities of people who have experienced homelessness, Site UnSeen utilises iconic locations around St Kilda to present the reality of those who are most invisible, and has been cocreated by people who have been there.
From the initial Circus of Exclusion to the final Kaleidoscope of Multiple Exits, the show discards the veils surrounding invisible people and places, to take you on an extraordinary journey where the usual codes of behaviour do not apply…or help you survive. Site Unseen combines visual installations, images, simulation, elephants, sound-scapes and actors.
Definitely one not to miss during the 2011 Melbourne Festival…
Event Information
Venue: Various; commencing at the St Kilda Lower Esplanade Carpark (St Kilda Triangle Site, next to the The Palais Theatre, St Kilda), Alfred Square and Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda
Dates: 6th – 22nd of October, 2011
Times: Thu 6 Oct – 4pm & 6pm; Mon – Fri at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sat – Sun at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm
Duration: 1hr 20mins – no interval
Tickets: $35 full price $15 Concession
Vic Carer’s Card Holders Free, Schools book through ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media)
Bookings: Ticketmaster, Theatre works, ATOM
