20 mins
Samara Hersch & Collaborators
SHOWCASE
THEATRE
18 Years+
SEX AND DEATH
A performance experiment about life, lives and living.
Every second, as the earth spins around the sun, we get older. But when do we actually become old? And how does our view of our ageing self change with time?
Sex and Death invites you to reflect on life, death and what happens in between. Part-date, part-photoshoot, it’s a chance to ask the big questions to someone a little older and wiser, and to consider the experience of yourself changing through time.
Through playful and provocative encounters, the work explores how time shapes, morphs and ultimately makes you who you are and who you will become.
Image: Ponch Hawkes
Samara Hersch & Collaborators
Samara Hersch is an artist and theatremaker working across theatre, film and live performance. Her practice is concerned with subverting representations of the ‘other’ through politically and socially engaged work, often collaborating with both trained and untrained performers.
Hersh has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2010 British Council Realise Your Dream Award, 2014 Australia Council for the Arts Early Career Residency program and 2015 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travel Fellowship.
In 2015, she was a Director in Residence at the Malthouse Theatre and a member of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women’s Director’s Program.
Contact
- Erin Milne
- Producer
- Bureau of Works
- erin@bureauofworks.com.au
- +61 412 853 220
- http://www.samarahersch.com/