Ninth wave

What do you do when the world is ending?

Party like it’s 1999!

Ninth Wave unfolds like a scene from Inception, with startling and beautiful images taking us ever deeper into the eye of the storm. Entwined with an original score composed by Regurgitator’s Ben Ely this dance on a smoking volcano is the party to end all parties.

Sitting on the edge of the sand you face out to the sea and the vast performance space of the beach, littered with half-buried cars and other detritus. You watch on as a party bubbling over with champagne-drinking fools wilfully ignores the warning signs of the end of the world.

“innovative, vigorous and cleverly contrived, with visions that will haunt you.”

Limelight Magazine

  • Created by: The Farm

    Directors: Grayson Millwood & Gavin Webber

    Performers: Kate Harman, Grayson Milwood, Mitchell Aldridge, Sam Coren, Scott Galbraith, May Greenberg, Mitchell Harvey, Alex Kay, Georgia Van Gils and Co3 youth ensemble

    Original Music: Ben Ely

    Sound Designer: Luke Smiles

    Associate Sound Designer: Anna Whitaker

    Lighting Designer: Mark Howett

    Production Manager & Lighting Associate: Chloe Ogilvie

    Costume Designer: Tyler Hill

    Originally Created & Performed by: Charles Ball, Essie Horn, Michael Smith, Gabriel Comeford, Hsin Ju Ely, Kate Harman, Gabrielle Nankivel, Craig Barry, Grayson Millwood and The Farm’s Greenhouse youth ensemble

    Original Costume Designer: Vilma Mattila

  • Commissioned by The Farm, Festival 2018 & Bleach* Festival

    Supported by Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Council for the Arts.

  • Commonwealth Games Festival 18

    Perth Festival 2022