Portland Arts Centre is proud to partner with Glenelg Libraries - Libraries after Dark to present Born in a Taxi's The Waiting Room in and around the Portland Library. LAD with a difference the library will be closed from 5pm to host this special ticketed event!
Waiting.
It may evoke an airport lounge, doctor’s surgery, dole office, job interview, or purgatory.
Waiting.
Waiting for a change, for a break, a diagnosis, for better times, for the paint to dry, for love, for a verdict, for death.
Enter The Waiting Room and you immediately ask: where’s the stage? The entire space is filled with rows of chairs. Sit where you will - there are no rules. You're free to sit and watch, or join in, while Melbourne's masters of improvisation seduce the audience into collective play, or scrutiny.
Either way, from the outset, you are complicit in the show’s creation, as both spectators and participants bring their own histories and imaginations to bear. The line between audience and performer fades, as genuine, spontaneous exchanges shape each moment that follows.
The Waiting Room places collective human behaviour under the microscope, from the banal to the absurd, as increasingly ridiculous scenarios unfold. In the waiting, interactions occur, events take place, connections are made, and meaning emerges. The stakes keep getting higher, till finally one person's wait is over...
Empowering and unpredictable, each performance of the show has its own unique, unrepeatable moments. Non-verbal and accessible, it is a performance for everyone, across culture and age.
“What makes this piece radically beautiful is that it interrogates and embodies the random processes intrinsic to human behaviour. Informed by physical theatre, social psychology and neuroscience, The Waiting Room is a living incarnation of fractal art….cutting-edge experimental theatre: a profound exploration of how we choreograph ourselves from chaos” Cameron Woodhead, The Age