Force Majeure’s Off The Record

Force Majeure’s Off The Record

How do you act in public? How do you act outside it? How different are these two selves? Force Majeure’s Off The Record is a wry, semi-biographical exercise in over-sharing that looks to transgress from the private sphere into the public. Performed by a cast of actors with and without disability, the co-directors hope that over-sharing might not just be funny and touching, but also insightful.

Accordingly, co-directors Danielle Micich and Philip Channells were interested in examining “the performers’ documented histories, such as assessments of their aptitude, personal characters and health, in order to find out where in their lives they may have started to break the rules”. In fact, the body of the play was generated from the performers’ narrative responses to “a series of 20 questions around the theme of [when they had broken] rules”.

Co-produced with Carriageworks in partnership with Dance Integrated Australia, Off The Record attempts to highlight the consequences, both personal and social, of following the often unspoken rules of public conduct, and the consequences of breaking them. Off The Record attempts to voice the small, everyday ways disability can impact one’s life, in public, in private, and in the moments in-between. (ZS)

Aug 17–20, varied performance times. Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh. $35. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au/artist/2179884 Info: www.forcemajeure.com.au 

BY ZEIYA SPEEDE

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