WARNING! 18+ - Contains nudity, violence, gutter talk, sexual fetishism, sexual violence, adult themes, defamatiion, implications, paper cuts and one golden shower! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
SLICING AND DICING!!!!
“There’s a woman strapped up in a chair over there. Will you use a saw or cleaver? It might feel morally wrong, but it looks like you have to hack her head clean from her body. Don’t worry about the key. Try not to look at the Dark Man. Don’t read the itinerary. Just slice, and dice.”
Slicing and Dicing!!!! is a blood soaked, brain spattered, tragic-comic farce of epic proportions about slavery, oppression, rebellion and great vegetarian lasagna.
Nov 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 30th. Dec 1st, 2nd, 3rd. All shows at 9pm
SNIPPETS FROM REVIEWS: (full reviews attached below)
"..the gargantuan, blood soaked, ambitious horror/absurdist/protest/comedy lets rip....this is all great fun...Peter Dunn's direction is spot on, all the cast warm to their tasks and the music and effects bring it all home...Peter Maddern - Krystoff
"Alan Grace's script is fantastically insane, evidence of a passion for experimental theatre and a bizarre imagination......Duende should be commended for producing great new work with young actors and taking risks because so few local companies do the same" - Marcel Blanch-de Wilt - Theatre People
"There are also a wealth of strong performances from all of the actors in their respective roles and some great ensemble work in this exceptionally thought-provoking work. We are lucky in Adelaide that we do get to see some new, experimental theatre such as this" - Barry Lenny - Glam Adelaide.
"Do not see this production if you are easily offended - but if you like a challenge and extremely avant- garde theatre, then this is the production for you"..... Brian Godfrey - ATG
"Jane Austen and Brett, a 21st century author of a certain kind of erotica, are both suffering from writer's block. In this entertaining "period" piece, their efforts to try something new - Brett the limpid romance, Jane the steamy scene - come to life as they speak. The result is uncommonly funny, with writer Steven Dawson capturing beautifully Austen's formal prose, but with unexpected turns of phrase. Slapstick aside, Austen's quiet melancholy over-shadows the piece, and very effectively too.
MOTEL - by Angela Betzien. Directed by Paige Rattray
MEDEA MATERIAL - by einer Muller, Directed by Kat Henry
THROUGH THE LEAVES by Franz Xaver Kroets, Directed by Netta Yashchin
Warnings:
Adults only; cigarette smoke, sudden loud noises, smoke effect haze
OPENING NIGHT FOR MEDIA IS SATURDAY AUGUST 1ST
Free tix night for Health Care Card Holders Friday July 31st
Arabian Night, by the celebrated German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, revolves around five characters who share an apartment on the seventh floor of one of the many claustrophobic tower block apartments in Berlin. Each character has another ‘life’ loosely related to the world of Arabian Nights where his or her various desires and fears are given form and acted out. In a complicated ‘dance’ that takes place during one evening on the hottest night of the year, the five interact both in the real and in the imaginary world with the boundaries becoming increasingly blurred between the two, resulting in a rich theatrical texture. It is a fusion of observation and action which is dynamic, startling and deeply absorbing. As if from a strange dream, the play leaves us waking up without a clear resolution or rational explanation. Arabian Night is the kind of play that lives by working on the imagination of the audience.
Snippets from Reviews:- (for full reviews click on "attachments" below)
"Whatever you're doing this weekend, cancel it. You have to see "Arabian Night" David O'Brien - Db Magazine
"A committed, frenzied and mind-meltingly clever pleasure" Steven Davenport - Indaily
"If you accept that a theatrical event is just that then....you need listen to me no longer....An involving performance right from the time the audience is admitted....the play works by resonance not a sledgehammer. I know that I'm going to try to see it again." Myk Mykyta - Radio Adelaide
A funny, fast-paced and captivating production. Joh Hartog has the cast (all of whom give excellent performances) moving almost non-stop. ...a challenging script, resulting in some very dynamic contemporary theatre" - Jamie Wright - Adelaide Theatre Guide
"Accidental Productions.....has pulled off this offbeat tale with panache....Jessica Barnden has ..delivered a stellar performance....Chris Asimos has pulled a genie out of the bottle....reality and fantasy blur in a manner that is challenging, entrancing and disturbing" Stephanie Johnson - Australian Stage On-line
"Barnden's performance is riveting....Do not wait too long to get a ticket or you might miss out when word gets around." -Barry Lenny - Glam Adelaide
**** (Four Stars from the Advertiser) Reviews here
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If you were the last woman on earth, who would you choose for the last man? For poor Louise it’s not the gorgeous, intelligent man of her dreams. Instead, she is trapped with her rather unnerving work colleague Mark. Louise (Hannah Norris) wakes to find herself with her work colleague, Mark, (Nick Pelomis) in his 1980s backyard nuclear bomb shelter. A terrorist ‘dirty bomb’ has gone off in central London and Mark has rescued Louise. Louise has no memory of the bomb going off at the pub where they were both drinking at the time or in fact how she got to the shelter.