Listen! I’m Telling You Stories
Listen! I’m Telling You Stories is a series of tales and reflections on life and the society that we live in that were sparked by a trip to Fowlers Gap Scientific Research Station, 112 kms north of Broken Hill.
There are nine performers in the collective who tell some quite personal stories of friendship, family and being young. There’s an interesting narrative about the flexibility of truth, particularly within the political realm; and stories about landscape and how it impacts on us as people. The play explores how we tell stories and who owns them, and brings all those debates together, exploring the notion of storytelling and truth.
“It’s not a linear narrative play. What we’re posing is a series of questions around the nature of the world we live in and our perceptions of life and the relationships that we have in this world. I hope audiences will come away thinking about how we relate with the world, with our landscape and each other,” explained PACT Collective artistic director Katrina Douglas.
PACT has been running the Collective program for 15 years. “…Every year we put a call of expression out for emerging artists interested in looking at and devising contemporary performances,” said Douglas.
“This performance is a whole mix of genres, drawing on lots of different performance techniques. There’s really funny moments, some heart-felt provocative moments, there’s pathos, chaotic moments. People should come and see this play because it’s created by really amazing emerging artists who will go on to have fantastic careers in the Arts,” she adds. (MS)
July 22 – 25. PACT, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville. $20-$25. Tickets & info: www.pact.net.au or 9550 2744
