promiscuous/ cities
January 2023
Theatre Works, Melbourne
Presented as part of Midsumma Festival
They’ve written endless songs about this city.
Can you feel the street’s pulse, how it rushes through your veins like a drug?
He’s in trouble, she’s falling in love, they’re cheating, she’s trapped and he’s alone.
But keep moving since we mustn’t fall behind.
A symphony of a single night in San Francisco – utopian dream destination of queers and misfits, promiscuous/cities encompasses a night in a big city where each of us is frantically maintaining the myth of ourselves we’ve created. Yet underneath the vision of ourselves that we peddle on social media – like! – there is an aching distance between us.
DIRECTOR / Alyson Campbell
WRITER / Lachlan Philpott
SOUND DESIGN AND DRAMATURGY / Meta Cohen
LIGHTING DESIGN / Emma Lockhart-Wilson
SET DESIGN / Leon Salom
COSTUME DESIGN / Casey Harper-Wood
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Amelia Burke
PERFORMERS / Tayla Abbott, Miela Anich, Endrico Botha, Hugo Gutteridge, Nicola Ingram, James Ironside, Guy Knowler, Jess Lu, Brittany Ng, Max J Palmerson, Oliver Tapp, Kurt Pimblett and Luce Wirthensohn
STAGE MANAGER / Sunny Youngsmith
PHOTOGRAPHY / Sarah Vickery