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Barking Gecko Theatre Company presents Driving Into Walls

21 February 10:00am - 11:10am Queensland Conservatorium - Conservatorium Theatre Dance, Theatre Full Length 15 years and over

Kissing, fighting, laughing, dancing and confessing... prepare to be confronted by the secret life of teenagers

In the intimate and confronting Driving into Walls five teenagers walk an emotional tightrope of online and offline relationships, colliding with one another and driving into the walls built around them. This daring, immersive production gives you a voyeuristic view of their deepest secrets, rages, anxieties and hopes.

Drawn from over 500 starkly honest and highly confidential interviews with teenagers, Driving into Walls draws back the curtain on what it means to be young in our modern, media-driven society. It offers heart warming, devastating and true insights into life as a teenager through an exciting blend of text, movement, visuals and music.

Image: Jon Green

Meet the artist

Barking Gecko Theatre Company

Barking Gecko Theatre Company (BGTC) is Western Australia's leading professional theatre company for young people. Since 1991 BGTC has been recognised nationally and internationally for their vigorous, bold and contemporary voice. The company's ambition is to create work that is extraordinary, exhilarating and relevant for audiences young and old.

BGTC engages with the worldview of young people and the electrifying energy of their era to create theatre that connects to their vulnerabilities, loves, gripes and dreams of the future. BGTC's theatre celebrates the depth of the human experience. Its stories are influenced by Western Australia yet resonate on a global level.

www.barkinggecko.com.au

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The development of Driving Into Walls was supported by Perth International Arts Festival Vital Stages program.