Corporare—Evan Task in Outer Space

Name: Corporare—Evan Task in Outer Space
Start: 2024-10-17T20:00:00+11:00
End: 2024-10-19T23:00:00+11:00
Location: The Thursday Group

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 08:00 pm to Sat Oct 19 2024 at 11:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

The Thursday Group | Melbourne, VI

3 shows in October. "Corporare looks at the corporate body, a metaphor of madness made real." "What a show! Just bloody gorgeous. Elegant, funny, gently caustic." Corporare—Evan Task in Outer Space created and performed by Matthew Crosby, presents a child, his rocket and his sociopathic fantasies. Hidden behind my veil, I am a corporate fiction… neither culpable nor accessible. Space though, is a storied frontier of delusions. It is a silent and cold vacuum where the loudest must finally listen. It is the medium in which my body forms: corporare! Where I am punished most horribly. Where my skin lets in the red lamé art-worms of Mars. Come witness my final reckoning. Come! Formare corpus!
Development of Corporare was supported by The City of Melbourne
Hero pic: Oscar Socias
-Contact: [email protected]
-Tickets: Waged: $40 | Non-waged: $25 | Education: (groups of 5) $75
-Dates: Thurs17 (plus QandA), Fri18, Sat19 October
-Time: 8pm
-Duration: 60 minutes
-Education: 17th—a brief QandA (see group student discount tix). Talk to Matt after any show.
-Front-of-house: stay for wine and nibbles
-Address: 430 Queensberry St, North Melbourne, enter at side.
-Special access needs? Let’s be in touch.
-Transport: 57 tram: stop 9 Howard St | 58 tram: stop 11 Queensberry St. Free parking out front. Cycles very welcome.
About Matthew Crosby
Matt has worked professionally in all areas of the performing arts since he was a child. He graduated from NIDA in 1981 and his film credits can be found on imdb. In 1991 he participated in the SCOT/Playbox Chronicles of Macbeth Tokyo/Adelaide International Arts Festivals. He received a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1995, two Asialink residencies, 2000/2011, and DFAT, The Japan Foundation, the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and the Playking Foundation have supported his facilitation of practice and performance development in local Melbourne theatre and collaborative projects between Japan, Australia and other Asian centres. He has performed in mainstage Australian theatre festivals as well as in Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Thessaloniki and Helsinki and been influenced in work with Suzanne Chaundy, Renato Cuaccolo, Kim Sujin, Barrie Kosky, Lech Mackiewicz, Deborah Lesier Moore, Ong Keng Sen, Suzuki Tadashi and many more. He collaborated with Yumi Umiumare and Ben Rogan for a decade on the DasShoku series of butoh/cabaret. In 2024 he completed an MFA at FOFA University Melbourne, VCA analysing power dynamics in theatre collaboration. He is a founding member and co-facilitator at Thursday Group where they develop practice in Suzuki Training, Grotowski, Michael Chekhov and other Thursday Group modalites. He will perform Corporare Evan Task in Outer Space, and direct Falling Heads, a co-devised international collaboration with Denmark in 2025.