New Wave: Sound brings the latest in innovative music with a two-day program featuring a forum on developing music trends as well as a diverse range of high calibre artists creating improvised, experimental and electronic sound performances.
Performance Space’s Switched On season, which is part of Sydney’s International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2013 program, is presenting four diverse projects that explore our physical and personal relationship to technology.
“We wanted to look at humankind’s relationship with technology,” says Performance Space Co-Director Bec Dean.
“We looked at how we engage with technology on an everyday and personal level through to the extraordinary with a strong focus on performance.”
“It’s exciting to have established and acclaimed playwrights sharing the stage with emerging ones,” says Festival Director Jeremy Waters of Mayday! The Playwrights’ Festival.
The special three week program of short-form theatre works features 20 recognised actors, 16 talented writers and 12 acclaimed directors such as Kate Gaul and Anthony Skuse in a unique program intended to showcase some of Australia’s best modern writers.
Look deeper into the sensationalist news reports of people arriving by boat to Australian shores and you’ll find powerful and intimate stories about immigration.
Acclaimed artist William Yang and writer and broadcaster Annette Shun Wah direct Stories Then & Now, which brings six heart-wrenching personal journeys of contemporary Asian-Australians to the stage.