Elias Jamieson Brown

Director Dino Dimitriadis
With Camilla Ah Kin and Tom Conroy

In the early hours of the morning Woman wakes to hear the sound of birds screeching outside her bedroom window. They are under attack and her cat is the tyrant. She doesn’t run outside to rescue the birds or shoo her cat inside with a broom. She sleeps instead because after all this sort of thing is a part of the natural order. At least that’s the excuse she’s happy to use. That is until Missy, the cat, begins to turn on her. 

For 12 nights across two weeks, Old 505 Theatre will come alive with new Australian works that explore what it means to seek ASYLUM

Operation Sovereign Borders was the policy the Coalition government took to the September 2013 Federal election - a military-led response to ‘combat people smuggling and protect Australia’s borders’.

Playwrights from across the country have been invited to create new plays that respond to one of the most contested ideas in Australia’s identity. How will our stage respond to Operation Sovereign Borders? What do our great storytellers have to say? The selected plays have been matched to directors and actors for two weeks of quick-response theatre.

Fasten your seatbelt.

All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne.

The plays were presented as staged readings.

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FILM & TELEVISION:

norfolk * cute aggression * duck duck goose * advent * ambrosia

THEATRE:

green park * a house on a street in a valley called gomorrah * camp * this wide night * the satyr * the master * crux * _control

THE BOTTOM DRAWER (UNPRODUCED PLAYS):

aleppo (part one) * hypnagogia

PERFORMANCE:

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