Perth’s Blue Room Theatre presents 13 local works spanning theatre, dance and a musical throughout its 2022 season.
This year, there’ll be more dance, more dreams, and more adventure, in a programme packed full of high stakes and even higher hopes. Audiences are invited to journey through what it means to experience live independent performance in Boorloo in 2022.
You’ll find a family drama in a bunker amidst a nuclear apocalypse. . . Pole dance through chronic illness and healing. . . And laugh inappropriately in a Chekhovian dinner party leading to a dungeon.
Kicking off the year is Kaitlin Tinker’s debut show ‘Earthside’, recounting a tale of birth trauma not unlike Ellen Ripley’s escape from Nostromo. Then, in an absurd exploration of ambivalence, five women dance and melt together around a moist chocolate in Montserrat Heras’ ‘Spectrums Of Chocolate Cake’.
In 2022, the venue is drawing in new audiences. For the first time, the Blue Room partners with AWESOME Festival and kids of all ages are invited aboard a kaleidoscopic flight in ‘Dreams Of A Lonely Planet’. A new collaboration with ‘Earthside’ and organisation Mother-Baby Nurture sees parents of all genders and their babies welcome to a matinee of the show.
2022 Annual Season from The Blue Room Theatre on Vimeo.
Two highlights from the 2022 Summer Nights programme return, levelled up and ready to wow audiences. In the punk rock musical ‘107’, teen girls wait for the school bus while lashing out about their deepest feelings. Amir Musavi’s debut Australian work ‘Utopia’ presents unreliable accounts of war-torn lands, told in jarring fragments.
“In a time where it feels like there are twists and turns at every corner, it is a privilege to cast our gaze forward to a whole year of stories that nudge us to embrace the ride over the destination,” Program Manager Rose Kingdom-Barron says.
“Whether it’s red sand deserts, the high seas, out of space, the space between moments, smashing down bowling pins, the establishment or being bounced around the public health system – these stories are full of movement. They do not sit still, and they cannot be contained.”
The full programme is on sale now.
The Blue Room Theatre’s 2022 programme begins with ‘Earthside’.
