Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls

Name: Dark Erotica Quartet / Footfalls
Start: 2025-11-12T09:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-12T11:00:00+11:00
Location: fortyfivedownstairs

Schedule

Wed Nov 12 2025 at 09:30 am to 11:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

fortyfivedownstairs | Melbourne, VI

Dark Erotica Quartet is the new short work by James Hazelden (from Mystery Radio Theatre) - but be warned! This is a very different beast.
A blackly comic take on kink, sexual proclivities and satisfaction. Three seemingly disparate scenes that fit together, Russian-doll style, into a celebration of the lost art of spoken erotica. A play about the kind of sex we think about, and not the kind we have – the places we go in our heads when our bodies are otherwise occupied. Structured like a concerto, but performed as a play, with live diegetic music. Sex is awkward and funny, dangerous, dark and joyous. Sometimes all at once. What if you were just a character in someone else’s fantasy?
Directed and produced by Blake Barnard
Performed by Cait Spiker, Matthew Connell, Tim Wotherspoon
Includes a new, live, original cello score performed by James Hazelden
Performed with the short play, Footfalls by Samuel Beckett
A woman paces in half-light, caught in the suspended breath between absence and presence: What remains when care has nothing left to hold? When love is tethered to obligation, and time loops endlessly back on itself? Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls is a meditation on grief, devotion, and the frail borders between. Celebrated artist Maude Davey embodies the role of May, a woman bound by duty, lost in quiet anguish, her every step compelling us to confront the spaces between words – where time stretches thin, and the heart beats with the quiet ache of a love that lingers.
Directed and produced by Keith Brockett
Performed by Maude Davey
Photo by Mark Gambino