Wednesdays at the End of the World
Over the past year, theatre/music maker Max Barton has been gathering artists and audiences for a series of one-night-only apocalypse experiments — Wednesdays at the End Of the World. Each month, in a new location across Walyalup, four guest artists have responded to a different end-of-the-world scenario — AI takeovers, meteor strikes, judgement days and climate collapses — woven together into a live mixtape of music, theatre and philosophical reflection.
Playful, haunting and surprisingly hopeful, these nights have been about facing the final curtain with humour and honesty, then coming back to the present with fortitude and community spirit. Each event has asked: what do we hold onto when everything is falling away? What can we do together to hold off the inevitable?
For the Fremantle Biennale, Barton assembles a stellar lineup of musicians and storytellers for a one-off panpocalypse finale. Set by the water, it’s an invitation to sit together at the edge, contemplate the worst — and make it to the other side of the night stronger.
Date and Time
WED 19 NOV, 7pm
Location
to be announced!
Image Credit
1. Photo by Matt Sav; 2. Photo: James Nilson; 3.Photo: Ai-LING TIUONG;
Max Barton is an award-winning British music and theatre artist based in Fremantle. He trained in both music and theatre, and has spent his career exploring ways to fuse artforms in order to engage listeners and audiences in compelling new ways. This thread has run through all his work, from tiny experimental interdisciplinary gigs through to large-scale musical work performed internationally for thousands of people a night. As a director, his world premiere production of Philip Ridley’s Karagula was nominated for eight Off-West End awards, winning three, and his production of The Listening Room has been performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre, across the UK in a national tour, and to prisoners and civilians across the UK through broadcasts from the Prison Radio Association and BBC radio 4.
As a writer he co-wrote Fuel Theatre’s show The Gretchen Question with Melly Still, and as one half of international company Second Body he has made several award-winning shows, including STYX, Concept for a Film and OOL.
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