WORLD AROUND US (2010)

Created, written, composed and performed by Miles O’Neil 

World Around Us repurposes found super 8 and 16mm home movies and combines them onstage with verbatim interviews, stories, songs and musical accompaniment. The work is a meditation on memory, family and the ever present potential for small moments of intimacy between strangers.

Seasons:

2010 October, Melbourne Fringe Festival

2010 October, The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney

2011 October, Melbourne Fringe Festival

Review quote:

Miles makes these stories of day-to-day life so irresistible and joyful by finding the unexpected beauty and love in each one. Love isn't about grand gestures and contrived events; it's really quite simple and sometimes it takes a taxi driver or a family watching performing seals to remind us just how beautiful our lives and our loves are.

Miles O'Neil's World Around Us II is on late each night at the Fringe hub. It's too beautiful to miss.

-Anne-Marie Praed, Sometimes Melbourne, Sep 23 2011