The Silence Came
Image: Photo: Aston Campbell
Have you ever wondered how your favourite films, television shows, or novels would turn out, if only you could call the shots? If so, then you could find the theatre piece you’ve been waiting for in The Silence Came.
Described as an immersive theatre piece set in “a distorted modern society, divided by class and polluted by the seven deadly sins”, it takes place throughout several rooms in a 165-year-old Darlinghurst terrace house. The audience dictates the direction the action onstage will take for each and every performance.
As creator, writer and director Duncan Maurice assures, with roughly eight hours worth of script for any given direction, the story may depend on the mood of each unique audience, “you couldn’t possibly see it all [and] it will be quite unique every night.” Maurice sees the idea of immersive theatre as “more in tune with the way that contemporary audiences consume culture, art, entertainment and information”, and believes that “those traditional boundaries of sitting, watching and waiting are being tested and pushed”.
Maurice has been “very humbled” by ticket sales so far and this show is garnering major early interest from a Sydney arts crowd whom, Maurice is confident are “really ready for something alternative.”
Tickets are selling out quickly, so audiences keen for a night of fascinating “choose your own adventure” theatre, should snap them up soon. (SW)
Apr 21-May 26, The Commons, 32 Burton St, Darlinghurst, $20, thesilencecame.com
BY SIRI WILLIAMS
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