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Phantasmagoria

Ticket Information

  • Adult: $37.50 each ($35.00 + $2.50 fees)
  • Concession: $29.50 each ($27.00 + $2.50 fees)
  • Student: $22.50 each ($20.00 + $2.50 fees)
  • Preview: $22.50 each ($20.00 + $2.50 fees)
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Dates

  • Tue 7 Sep 2021, 7:30pm
  • Wed 8 Sep 2021, 7:30pm
  • Thu 9 Sep 2021, 7:30pm
  • Fri 10 Sep 2021, 7:30pm Auslan Interpreted Session
  • Sat 11 Sep 2021, 7:30pm

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Restrictions

15+

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Theatre Works

What do you do when you find out your father tried to kill your mother?

a) Forgive him, move on and love him despite the fact?

b) Erase him completely from your memory? or

c) Employ a spirit medium and have a few words with him.

Briony chose option c) and this play is the result.

Based on a true story, Phantasmagoria is a play that explores the complex relationship between a woman and her violent father long after he has passed away. Briony unearths her father’s childhood experiences in Sri Lanka, his brutal World War 2 history in Burma, migration, alcoholism, and his families eventual escape from him. Using a lens of magic realism, the work plunges beneath a seemingly everyday domestic space to reveal family secrets, hauntings and complex emotional landscapes.

Travelling back and forth through time and space, Phantasmagoria is a sensorial feast flavoured with grief, love, loss, absurdity, surprise and a generous dose of magic. Dynamic and sensitive performance, comedy, puppetry and evocative animated imagery give physical life to the liminal realm of ghosts and the unseen.

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