Summer Nights

29 January - 19 February 2012
PICA Performance Space

PRESENTED BY THE BLUE ROOM IN ASSOCIATION WITH PICA. PART OF FRINGEWORLD 2012

Just when you thought festival season couldn't get bigger, we're getting together with our neighbours to give Fringe World a massive injection of independent performance. Summer Nights at PICA will feature new, returning and award-winning theatre, dance, comedy and story telling from WA and around the world.

Tickets: $25 - $35.
Book through: The Blue Room or Fringe World

WEEK 1: 31 January - 4 February, 2012

The Day the Sky Turned Black
Written/performed by Ali Kennedy Scott (NSW)
6:30pm
A story of courage and hope inspired by interviews with survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires.
"Enthralling" - NY Times. Winner: Excellence in Solo Performance - NY & Sydney, and Sydney Fringe People's Choice Award.

Three Strikes
Written/performed by Brian Finkelstein (US)
8pm
On his 39th birthday, this sometimes host of The Moth LA and Emmy Award-nominated writer went on strike and for months ate lunches delivered by Jay Leno. A Summer Nights exclusive Australian premiere.

Laryngectomy: Homilies and Parables on the Freedom of Speech
By Renegade Productions (WA)
9:30pm
The return of this heartfelt and controversial interactive performance attacks the worms that have dined for too long on the ideals of free speech. "You had to sit up and take notice." - The West Australian

WEEK 2: 7-10 & 12 February, 2012

Hope is the saddest
Written/directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler (WA)
6:30pm
Dolly Parton, Death, Delusion and humour make an exciting blend of stylised performance, set in a world of magical eccentricity. "It moves, entertains and delights" - The West Australian. 2008 Blue Room Theatre Best Production.

Tilted Fawn
By Melanie Lane and CLARK (DE/WA/UK)
8pm
Berlin-based dance artist Lane and UK electronic musician CLARK create a solo dance work with low-fi sonic landscapes that propel the dancer along a luscious, melancholic, stark and utopian journey.

standing bird
Directed by Sally Richardson (WA)
9:30pm
This dance/theatre/film work choreographed by WA Dance Award winner Danielle Micich explores a shipwrecked woman's experience of the Australian landscape - submersion, dislocation, isolation and transformation.

WEEK 3: 14-16 & 18-19 February, 2012

Persians
By Little Daggers, a Happy Dagger Theatre initiative in association with Little y Theatre Co (WA)
6:30pm
An ensemble cast delivers history's oldest surviving play; the story of one man's rashness, passion and fall from grace, told with the explosive physicality of those for whom everything has been crushed.

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The Pink Couch (ZA)
8pm
Award-winning, intimate and controversial, this piece of "brave, original, sexy South African theatre" sees two mates in dead end jobs, waiting for Happy Hour at the end of each day to drag them into the next. A Summer Nights exclusive Australian premiere.

Walk In Dirt
Written/performed by Stephen House (SA)
9:30pm
A man walks into the urban underworld, meeting bizarre and beautiful characters' and himself. "Touching observations on human kind" - The Advertiser
"Clever ideas and snappy charismatic acting" - The Dublin Times