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.
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