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SERENDIPITY

Part of Decimal Points: First Station

This was my first show back in professional theatre after 6 years. And it was a full-blooded baptism at the deep end of a burning pool of blood and sweat. I loved every single moment.

A uniquely innovative and narratively elegant show with each actor enclosed in their own room, adjacent to one another. They spoke to and heard each other without seeing the other, in the intimacy of their own separate audience, who were not aware that the source of the other character's voice was just next door.

 

The 'magic' moment was at the pivot in the story, when the only door between them was opened, and the audiences were invited to crossover. 

Highlights include designing and building a 'giant working spool of rope' that could also be used as a stool on wheels, operating sound and lights alone from a tight corner of one room, with scarce sightline of one actor and none whatsoever of the other actor next door, all while constantly preventing mic feedback.

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Year: 2013

Company: Cake Theatrical Productions

Director: Philip Tan

Venue: The Substation, Classroom 1 & 2

Role: Assistant Production Stage Manager

+ Sound & Lighting Operator

Sean Tobin & Edith Podesta in the house

upstairs house

separated by a wall

and door

half here

half there

warps the act of listening

and perceiving

entirely

but

the couple

indissolubly linked

by a dead child

no longer speak

in ways

normality

understands

you understand

the surreal turn

their lives have taken

and try

to listen

and understand

Images by Tuckys Photography

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