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SIFA 2023: POMPEII
May 18, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
$48Date: 2 June 2023, Friday & 3 June 2023, Saturday
Time: 8pm
Date: 4 June Sunday
Time: 3pm
Duration: 1hr 30m, intermission TBC
Venue: Drama Centre Theatre
Tickets: $38, $48
POMPEII plays out on a live soundstage, in which the lives of an imagined apartment building’s inhabitants materialise before us. Trapped in a bomb-shelter, a narrator tells us the story of an apartment block in which the lives of its residents were anything but – until a catastrophe reduced them to the inanimate, their lives existing only as object and memory. Exploring the archaeology of intimacy, POMPEII questions if the objects and spaces that we leave behind in death represent that which we were, or betray the true nature that we ourselves denied in life.
Image courtesy of Joseph Nair