Coil - re:group performance collective

Streaming killed the video store.

Next Wave presents Coil – re:group performance collective (world premiere)

An elegy to the closure of the local video shop, Coil is about nostalgia, loneliness, friendship and viability.

The local video store was a communal space. It represented possibility, adventure, camaraderie, risk. Browsing the wide range of online streaming sites has replaced wandering the aisles of our local video shops, but what does the loss of these physical librarial spaces do to us? How does it affect our friendships, our culture, our engagement with the town at large?

Shooting a film live on stage before a captive the audience, Coil invites you to be there for every take. The screens say there’s a connection whilst the theatre says he’s alone.

A playful and timely live cinema experience that reflects upon the joys, perils and pitfalls of nostalgia, join re:group as they outsource their own labour to technological replacements and grapple with goodbyes.

Pay homage to the brightly-lit video libraries of our past, and commemorating the communities we made within them, next to the choc tops and New Releases.

Next Wave presents Coil this February at Brunswick Mechanics Thu 27-Sat 29 February 2022.

17 February 2022, 8pm
18 February 2022, 8pm *Auslan interpreted performance, Audio described performance
19 February 2022, 2pm & 8pm