“Brilliant… shockingly funny to watch.” The Australian
Post presents OEDIPUS SCHMOEDIPUS
60 minutes Performance Space, Judith Wright Centre Adults (18+)
Death – it belongs to everyone!
Oedipus Schmoedipus takes the all-time greatest plays, picks out the death scenes, mixes them together and hands them back to the people. After all, death belongs to everyone.
For this mammoth undertaking of gore, laments, requiems and war cries, Australia’s silliest/smartest theatre makers,post, are joined by 25 volunteers – a new cast rehearsed fresh for each performance. Cunningly and cleverly carried off, Oedipus Schmoedipus is a democratic theatrical extravaganza 2,500 years in the making. Fed up with white men staging the deaths of white men in plays written by white men, the white ladies of post have pirated the classics to confront the great unknown. This is their bid for theatre history – either to join it, or wreck it.
Image: Ellis Parrinder
Meet the artist
Post
Straddling live art, theatre and contemporary performance practices, post (Nat, Zoe and Mish) are described as ‘hybrid’, but prefer ‘genre-queer’. They rose through the ranks of experimental venues and exploded onto the mainstream without anyone really knowing how, with productions including Oedipus Schmoedipus and Who’s The Best? Post’s work is joyful and dark, stupid and smart.
They take being silly very seriously, and have a real commitment to innovation. Their deep irreverence for the institution of theatre and deep reverence for the magic moment of the liveness it houses has amused, bemused and probably annoyed audiences for the past ten years.
Contact:
- Zoe Coombs Marr
- Co-Director
- Post
- post.presents@gmail.com
- +61 415 134 868
- http://postpresentspost.com/