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'We are finite in an infinite world: the punchline of existence is how little of it we're given.
'An anxious god whips up the universe to garner some praise. A mesmerist makes concrete the internal workings of a woman's mind. A new Adam and Eve emerge in the unlikeliest of spaces.
'Australia's Back to Back Theatre is unarguably one of the world's most exciting and urgent companies working today, tirelessly charting trails deeper into the landscape of the unconscious.
'Collapsing the space between the epic and the everyday and divining the mythic in the mundane, Lady Eats Apple is the company’s largest-scale work to date: a cosmic dance from the Garden of Eden to a medieval snowstorm to the urban jungle we live in.' (Production summary)
Production Details
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Presented by Back to Back Theatre and performed as part of the Melbourne Festival at Arts Centre Melbourne : 6-23 October 2016.
Set Design Mark Cuthbertson
Projection Design Rhian Hinkley
Lighting Design/Technical Direction Andrew Livingston, bluebottle
Composition Chris Abrahams
Sound Design Marco Cher-Gibard
Sound System Design Nick Carroll
Sound Design & Mix Lachlan Carrick
Dramaturgy Melissa Reeves, Tamara Searle & Kate Sulan
Creative Development Artists Robbie Croft, Sonia Teuben & Brian Tilley
Production Manager Dans Maree Sheehan
Mechanical Design and Fabrication Kinetic Sets
Costume Design Eugyeene Teh
Stage Manager Alice Fleming
Assistant Stage Manager Lucy Harrison
Senior Producer Ally Harvey
Executive Producer Alice Nash
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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'We Will Look After You' : Back to Back Theatre's Lady Eats Apple and the Promise of 'the Time After' in the Narratives of Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 36 no. 4 2017; (p. 23-31)'The article takes as its starting point 'We will look after you', a specific utterance and theatrical moment at the end of Lady Eats Apple by Back to Back Theatre insofar as these embody the potential aesthetic and political efficacies of the narrative strategies of recent theatre involving actors with intellectual disabilities. These narratives are first located within the context of the development of such theatre over the last fifty years and then within the particular processes of development of Back to Back Theatre as a company exploring the terms of the 'distribution of the sensible' (Rancière) of intellectual disability within contemporary theatrical performance, specifically in what might be termed the narrativity of postdramatic theatre. An analysis is then offered of how Lady Eats Apple reconfigures what can be said, shown, felt and understood in such theatre through the disorientation of the senses of perception and location of the audience. The analysis concludes that the company's aesthetic approach proves to be political in 'the time after' of performance, in its reconfiguration of assumed binaries of both the construction of the self as subject and of the relationship of care and dependence between people with and without disabilities.' (Publication abstract)
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Lady Eats Apple Review – Examination of the Epic and the Every Day Bears Fruit
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 10 October 2016;
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama -
Creation Revelation
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 October 2016; (p. 15)
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama -
Back to Basics for a World Premiere of 3-part Show
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8-9 October 2016; (p. 13)
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama
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Back to Basics for a World Premiere of 3-part Show
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8-9 October 2016; (p. 13)
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama -
Creation Revelation
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 October 2016; (p. 15)
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama -
Lady Eats Apple Review – Examination of the Epic and the Every Day Bears Fruit
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 10 October 2016;
— Review of Lady Eats Apple 2016 single work drama -
'We Will Look After You' : Back to Back Theatre's Lady Eats Apple and the Promise of 'the Time After' in the Narratives of Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 36 no. 4 2017; (p. 23-31)'The article takes as its starting point 'We will look after you', a specific utterance and theatrical moment at the end of Lady Eats Apple by Back to Back Theatre insofar as these embody the potential aesthetic and political efficacies of the narrative strategies of recent theatre involving actors with intellectual disabilities. These narratives are first located within the context of the development of such theatre over the last fifty years and then within the particular processes of development of Back to Back Theatre as a company exploring the terms of the 'distribution of the sensible' (Rancière) of intellectual disability within contemporary theatrical performance, specifically in what might be termed the narrativity of postdramatic theatre. An analysis is then offered of how Lady Eats Apple reconfigures what can be said, shown, felt and understood in such theatre through the disorientation of the senses of perception and location of the audience. The analysis concludes that the company's aesthetic approach proves to be political in 'the time after' of performance, in its reconfiguration of assumed binaries of both the construction of the self as subject and of the relationship of care and dependence between people with and without disabilities.' (Publication abstract)
