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Mirror’s Edge
July 27, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm AEST
$10 – $20
Presented by Union House Theatre
Written by Kim Ho
Directed by Petra Kalive
Eight strangers are drawn to an impossible Lake in the heart of the Mallee – connecting across cultures, across languages, across time.
Sea Lake is dying – a tiny drought-stricken town in the heart of the Mallee. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a busload of Chinese tourists turns up to take photos on the nearby salt lake. When the sun goes down, when the light’s just right, the lake turns to mirrorwater and it’s like you’re walking on sky. Not far behind these unlikely visitors comes Kai, fleeing Melbourne, broken and adrift. As Kai begins to understand this strange new place, its cultures and stories begin refracting through one another.
With tenderness and humour, Mirror’s Edge examines cross-cultural relationships across three centuries. The show provokes discussion around how these cultures work to enrich each other, through great design and technology elements including projections and a real lake on stage.
Developed as part of Cybec Electric & Asiatopa 2017 at Melbourne Theatre Company
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