What is your show about?
Breadcrumbs is the show where I will be performing through a subconscious state in order to create a dream-like experience for the audience. I’ll be working within the metaphor of everyone in the space being part of a collective subconscious, a term coined by Carl Jung to describe synchronistic or coincidental events occurring in our dreams and our waking life. Each of the six shows will be unique, just as no two dreams are exactly alike.
What was the process of putting your show together?
These past few months I’ve been exploring being on stage in a state of complete vulnerability and abandon through the platform of self-induced exorcism. These times on stage have been quite illuminating in what dwells inside me. Breadcrumbs is going to be less of an expulsion of the subconscious and more of a discovery of that place beneath the surface.
How does your show challenge audience members?
Breadcrumbs will challenge the audience to remember to dream even when we think we are awake.
How does your show push the envelope in terms of creativity and convention?
It’s solo on-the-spot dream theatre. Effectively, I’m going up there empty, script-less and open, and leaving it, hopefully, with a fun show. Convention demands a polishing and processing of a product prior to public consumption. While I have been practicing and polishing the state of mind I need to occupy on stage, the product itself will be consumed raw.
Why should someone come to your show?
Well, if you like the absurd, if you talk about dreams, if you dwell on the hidden stuff that makes up our daily experience of this third-dimensional existence, then Breadcrumbs is for you.
How does your show explore Fringe’s theme of stepping into the light?
The exposure of the subconscious through my performance is pretty revealing. There is a lot of darkness in secret hidden places. It’s time to shine a light on those areas.
Venue: Belleville Melbourne
Date: September 26 – October 1
Time: 7.15pm
Tickets: $12 – $15
