Psychedelic, improvised and interactive.
Explore the line between what is right and what feels good.
Bacchants is a live performance that experiments with the push and pull between learned behaviour and human nature. Some parts are live-scored, some parts are purely performance-based and all are encouraged to let loose and interact.
Bacchants is loosely based on Theo’s reimagining of The Bacchae and by collaborating with Etiquette musicians Gabriel Gregan, Milo McLaughlin and Lewis Mosley, the team want to explore how live improvised performance can bring meaning to the absolving of self and arriving at chaos.
Turn on, tune in and drop out.
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Friday 12 July, 6:30pm
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Theodore Carroll is a multidisciplinary artist interested in experimenting with relationships created between the performer and audience. He is currently developing an interactive project with a reimagined version of the Greek tragedy The Bacchae, set in the Summer of Love. Experimenting with sound, smell, texture and multimedia, he wants to discover how to craft accessible experiences that immerse and engage audiences.
Etiquette is a collaborative musical project featuring Gabriel Gregan, Milo McLaughlin and Lewis Mosley. The trio are developing a practice of free-improvised performance that brings together their shared interests in ambient, noise, jazz, punk and modern classical musics. All three members have appeared in numerous projects and bands in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, and ‘Bacchants’ marks their debut performance as an ensemble. -
This production involves audience participation/interaction.
It also includes the use of haze, fake blood, flashing images and projections, moments of complete darkness, loud disorienting sounds and a theatrical depiction of childbirth.
Please note that this work is currently in development and its content warnings may change.