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'Using Roland Barthes’ A Lovers Discourse and Schoenberg’s opera Erwartung as references, Insatiable is a stylised, abstracted musical drama presenting ideas about the nature of ‘performance’: What does it mean to ‘perform’? Who is giving the performance? What is the audience's position in all of this?
'Four people arrive at an old theatre for an audition and each must wait their turn to perform. As they wait, the characters gradually reveal - through recitatives and arias - more about the roles they are playing and speculate on their future lives.'
Source: Australian Music Centre.
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First performed 25 March 1986, at the Performance Space, Sydney. Later performed in Melbourne. Filmd for the ABC in 1986; the recording was screened as part of the video program at the Melbourne Film Festival in 1987.
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