tide

48 hour durational improvisation and winner of the 2018 Helpmann Award for Best Physical Theatre

Over two days and nights, through a mix of improvisation, dance, real estate deals, personal interactions and live environmental soundtrack, this Helpmann Award winning dance-theatre work gives audiences an opportunity to participate in an unfolding drama as these two performers deal with the very real consequences of their situation. They ask the community for food and support as they deal with the environmental conditions and their physical deterioration and thereby transform a tough reality into a place of optimism and compassion, a place where our true nature shines through as we face the coming reality together

Change is unrelenting and the tide cannot be held back, no matter how you fight it.

Welcome to an absurdist view of the impacts of climate change as the ocean rises around the feet of two businessmen trapped in an office on a sandbar, clinging to what they know in denial of an obvious truth, the rising TIDE.

“Came for a surf, stayed for the art.”

Doug

  • Created by: The Farm

    Performed by: Gavin Webber & Josh Thomson

    Live Music - Ben Ely

    Direction: Kate Harman, Gavin Webber, Joshua Thompson & Grayson Millwood

    Set - Vilma Mathila & The Farm

    Costume - Vilma Mathila & The Farm

  • Special Thanks:

    TIDE was commissioned and Produced by Bleach* Festival in 2015 and presented again in 2018 by Bleach Festival and Festival ‘18, the Commonwealth Games Festival.

  • 2018

    Bleach Festival and Festival 18’ - Gold Coast

    2016

    Bleach Festival - Gold Coast