Projects

2023

MONA FOMA, PLATFORM ARTS, FUSEBOX FESTIVAL & PS21

THE DIRECTOR

“Exceptionally good …an often hilarious, intimate show that’s also a sharp evisceration of how even funerals have been captured by predatory capitalism” – Alison Croggon, The Saturday Paper

Following a sold-out 2018 premiere at Arts House and highly-acclaimed seasons at Sydney Opera House, ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Finland),  SICK Festival (UK) and the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (India), APHIDS is thrilled to resurrect The Director for a national and international tour to Launceston for MONA FOMA, Geelong for PLATFORM, Austin for Fusebox Festival and Chatham for PS21 in New York.

Starring charismatic ex-funeral director of 21 years, Scott Turnbull, and APHIDS Co-AD Lara Thoms, the result is a spiky, funny and invigorating performance.  

CREDITS

Creators – Lara Thoms, with Scott Turnbull, Aaron Orzech and Lz Dunn
Performers – Lara Thoms, Scott Turnbull

Designer / Technical Manager for Aus season – Katie Sfetkidis
Sound – Kenneth Pennington
Producer / Tour Manager – Anna Nalpantidis
Rehearsal Director – Mish Grigor
Touring Technical Manager for US season– Jenny Hector

The Director is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.

 

COMING UP

Fusebox Festival, Austin – 16-17 April

PS21, Chatham – 22 April

PREVIOUS SEASONS

MONA FOMA, Tasmania – 17-19 February

Platform Arts, Geelong – 22-25 March

Image by: Jesse Hunniford/Mona

APHIDS acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boon wurrung peoples on whose lands we live and work. Sovereignty was never ceded and we pay our respect to past, present, and future Aboriginal elders and community, and to their long and rich history of artmaking on this Country.