A View of Concrete

flaming locomotive productions (Blue Room WA First)

	Runs: (Preview Tue 21 Apr) Wed 22 – Sat 25 Apr, Tue 28 Apr – Sat 2 May Tue 5 – Sat 9 May Meet the Artists Tue 28 Apr
	Time: All shows 8pm
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The Blue Room Studio 21 April - 9 May 2009	Image: Sabrina Wong

Written by Gareth Ellis

Directed by Allan Girod

Featuring
Anna Brockway, James Helm, Brendan Ewing, and Mel Munt

Clouds have turned orange, parks have become multiplexes, drugs are on the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and now cats and dogs are committing suicide.

“Trees don’t make money. Unless you cut them down.”

Melbourne writer Gareth Ellis (2005 Malcolm Robertson Prize, Best Emerging Playwright) constructs a cruel, gripping and twisted snapshot of the near future that is part surreal comedy and part gritty apocalyptic realism.

In his sprawling metropolis, where trees are near non-existent, Neil, Jacquie, Billy and James sidestep the reality of the world they have inherited, and their view of concrete, by entertaining all-encompassing and self-destructive fantasies.

This irreverent, visceral and explosive Wal Cherry Award-winning play presents a heavily constructed, disengaged reality in which human connections are replaced with plug-in devices; a world that may be closer than we think

WARNING: Contains smoking.

Tickets:

Full $25 / Conc. $17
Blue Room Members: Full $20 / Conc. $15
Preview $12

NOTE: $2 from every ticket goes to Lifeline WA as part of flaming locomotive’s Community Partnership initiative.