Rate Of Decay
What Remains When There’s Nothing Left?
By Xanthe Jones
Rate of Decay is an original Australian Gothic play for youth performers, told through a series of haunting vignettes. Spanning from the gold rush to a nuclear apocalypse, it drifts through an orphanage, beauty pageant, police interrogation room, coastal town, a cult leader's table, and other strange and mysterious corners of the country. Each story explores themes of isolation, paranoia, violence, and lingering questions when someone or something is lost. Laced with dark humour, Rate of Decay explores place, time and people as they inhabit the shadows of the Australian psyche, before their stories fade again in this gothic anthology.
This festival, Rate of Decay, will have two showings: 1) a theatre performance with industry professional actors and 2) a play reading with high-school age Young Artists. See details for each showing below.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
PLAY READING WITH YOUNG ARTISTS
DATE: Saturday 11th October, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
VENUE: The Workshop Space
Seven Hills Hub
28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills
TICKETS: General Admission $20, Concession $15 (Use code LOOKUPCONCESSION)
STAGED PRODUCTION
DATES: Thursday 16th October, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Friday 17th October, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
VENUE: The Ron Hurley Theatre
Seven Hills Hub
28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills
TICKETS: General Admission $35, Concession $30 (Use code LOOKUPCONCESSION)
AGES & WARNINGS: Suicidal ideation, supernatural themes, stage combat, violence, mild coarse language, abuse. Missing persons, cults, and apocalypse
ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair Accessible.
CREATIVES
Playwright/Director | Xanthe Jones
YOuth CAST
Maddison Bennie
George Brazil
Georgia Brough
Miwanyo Jongen Tsey
Eli Lucre
Saxon Miller
Genevieve Nix
CAST
Siena D'Arienzo
Alisha O'Brien
Triona Calimbayan-Giles
Josephine Orton
Tom Pocilujko
Peter Hatton
Will Kasper