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WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH – SATURDAY 2 APRIL Preview Wed 23 April, 8.30pm C.U.B MALTHOUSE, BECKETT THEATRE 45 minutes no interval |
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"DEEPLY INVOLVING... FAKER DOES IT EXPERTLY AND MEMORABLY." The Australian
A CHUNKY MOVE PRODUCTION CO-PRESENTED WITH MALTHOUSE THEATRE
The show about the show that never happened.
Gideon Obarzanek is internationally celebrated for his highly accomplished and unpredictable, genre-defying, dance productions. After twenty years of making work for individuals, groups and for his own company, Chunky Move, Obarzanek has created Faker, a disarmingly personal solo performance of his own.
Faker arose out of a two week workshop Obarzanek undertook with a young dancer. Despite best intentions, not everything went to plan.
Success, experience and earned respect count for little when pitted against the doubts that haunt an empty studio. In Faker we find Obarzanek at his computer reading an email he received from the young dancer letting him know, in the most brutally honest language, her thoughts on the time spent working with him.
Frank and darkly humorous, Faker exposes the expectations and disappointments, the creative aspirations and personal doubts of dance and theatre making.
In this tour-de-force performance of startling intimacy and revelation, Faker sees its own maker putting himself in the firing line - a rare insight into the mind of one of Australia’s most acclaimed creators.
Creator/Performer: Gideon Obarzanek
Lighting Designers: Gideon Obarzanek, Chris Mercer
Creative Consultants: Lucy Guerin, Antony Hamilton, Tom Wright
