MARCH 3 - MARCH 13

MALTHOUSE THEATRE AND CHUNKY MOVE PRESENT

CHUNKY MOVE’S

MORTAL ENGINE

DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER GIDEON OBARZANEK
INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGNER FRIEDER WEISS
LASER AND SOUND ARTIST ROBIN FOX
COMPOSER BEN FROST
COSTUME DESIGN PAULA LEVIS
LIGHTING DESIGN DAMIEN COOPER
SET DESIGN RICHARD DINNEN
& GIDEON OBARZANEK

CAST
KRISTY AYRE, SARA BLACK, AMBER HAINES,
LEE SERLE, JAMES SHANNON &
JORIJN VRIESENDORP

MERLYN THEATRE
MARCH 3 – MARCH 13

Following acclaimed seasons for the Sydney Festival and Edinburgh International Arts Festival, Mortal Engine caused a sensation when it was presented in Melbourne in March 2009, selling out before opening night, leaving audiences clamouring for tickets.

Chunky Move’s astonishing creation has since toured to Mexico City, Dusseldorf, Salamanca and Philadelphia, going on to win an “Honourable Mention - Hybrid Art” in the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, widely regarded as the most important international award for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media.

Now, directly following performances for New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music, Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move join forces to bring Mortal Engine back to Melbourne for a limited season.

A dance-video-laser performance, Mortal Engine uses movement-responsive technology to create an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Mortal Engine accelerates us into a reality of permanent change where crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect and the most sinister of souls.

PHOTO ANDREW CURTIS PICTURED LEE SERLE