OFFICE
Meat Market | Arts HouseOffice 22
44 Courtney Street
North Melbourne
Victoria 3051 Australia
POSTAL
PO Box 302North Melbourne
Victoria 3051 Australia
PHONE
+61 3 9090 7095HOURS
10am - 6pmMonday - Thursday
Media
MINOTAUR THE ISLAND
'The event is immediately domestic and improvised, but the effect is fascinating: it's a re-enactment of a myth that draws out of these humble objects a compelling sense of ritual. I found the performance wholly absorbing, and started thinking about the Lares, the household gods of the Romans, where the domestic sphere is also the site of the sacred.'
Theatre Notes, Review - Minotaur by Alison Croggon
'The intimate opera crowd was enthralled by the production with a harpsichord played by an Elizabethan player dressed in a Baroque dress and a seagulls head, a tall percussionist in drag with an op shop hat on his head, as well as the double bass player also in drag scratching and strumming along. A long haired singer performed in an other worldly performance from another world and time from a lost era.'
The Opera Boys We rely on the mindfulness of strangers
DWELLING STRUCTURE
'... perhaps the most beautifully judged site-specific work I have seen... By the end, I felt exactly the kind of effect that Octavio Paz claims for poetry - that it takes you from silence to silence, but by the end the silence has changed. It is mysteriously joyous, and profoundly beautiful.'
Alison Croggon, theatrenotes
'A subtle and important achievement pushing the edges of the form in all the right ways.'
ArtsHub
'Ironically set in an old Northcote music-hall, this “sound-scape with figures” production (scarily) reminded me of a petty-criminal friend who would break into and rob people’s houses, shower, cook a meal, take a nap and even swim in their pool if they had one.'
The Opera Boys
'It was only a night later that I had a visceral response: a dream in which my house was alive and wielding knives!'
David Maney, blogger: trip the light fantastick (sic)
'For opera aficionados out there, I'm confident you will love this, however if you're a novice like me, or you just like female sopranos, you might want to do some research first.'
Leila @ Theatre Alive
OPHELIA DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
'Schlusser's domestic pageantry is beautifully designed and fearlessly performed. If his beguiling engagement with Hamlet remains amorphous, we can still delight in this unusual form of artistic patronage and the churn of ideas it has produced.' The Age
'The contemporary planes of house - its huge, white kitchen, its carefully lit back garden and swimming pool - become stages for a haunting: Hamlet exists as a fragmentary memory, distorted glimpses of perverse, operatic passion within a domestic, naturalistic setting...We see a fragmentary narrative of repressed erotic energies invading and exploding in this scene of idealised, aspirational domesticity.' Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes
