Separation Street (2015)
Written and created by Sue Giles, Miles O’Neil, Joseph O’Farrell, Glen Walton, Emily Tomlins, Richard Vabre and Steph O’Hara.
Separation Street is a collaborative interactive theatre performance, co-created with Suitcase Royale and Polyglot. The work illuminates the relationship between adults and children and explores notions of power and control, isolation and belonging. Separation Street was developed over a number of stages between 2013 and 2015 with groups including the Currajong School and the Victorian College of the deaf.
Season: 2015, September. Melbourne Fringe Festival
Awards: Green Room Award for Innovation of Form
Review Quote:
Based on the idea of separating children and adults, Separation Street thrusts you out of your comfort zone into a magnetic and unimaginable world. Separation Street will never be seen in its entirety by any one person. Everyone sees this unusual and curious universe separately. The interactive theatre performance creates a labyrinth based in outer space that both children and adults can explore at the same time, but through separate journeys. The internationally acclaimed theatre companies Polyglot and Suitcase Royale join forces in the innovative and comical show showing as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. This wonderful labyrinth may separate age groups, but it invokes harmony and opens a conversation between generations.
-Kirsti Weisz. Mojo News. 29 September 2015
