'Skylab is a science fiction comedy set in July 1979 when the American space station Skylab crash landed off the southern coast of Western Australia near the coastal town of Esperance. Telekinesis and telepathy besets the town’s population resulting in confusion and fear. President Jimmy Carter rings Balladonia Roadhouse to formally apologise and Auntie picks up the phone.'
Source: Carriageworks website. (Sighted: 14/7/2015)
First read at Yellamundie National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Playwriting Festival on 6 August 2015.
Performed at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne as part of the National Play Festival 2016 : 28 July and 30 July 2016
Creative Team: Leticia Cáceres, Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Kyle Morrison and Iain Sinclair.
Cast: Mark Coles-Smith, Carissa Lee, Lisa Maza, Aaron McGrath, Kelton Pell, and Carly Sheppard.
Performed at Black Swan Theatre Company (Studio Underground) in collaboration with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, 16 August to 2 September 2018.
Director: Kyle J. Morrison.
Set & Costume Designer: Matthew McVeigh
Lighting Designer: Mike Nanning
Sound Designer/Composer: Clint Bracknell
Vision Designer: Mia Holton
Assistant Director: Ian Michael
Cast: Laila Bano Rind, Eva Bartlett, Gary Cooper, Liani Dalgetty, Donnathia Gentle, Juliette Laylan, Alan Little, Rayma McGrath-Morrison, Benjamin Narkle, and Jacob Narkle.
'Melodie Reynolds-Diarra’s Skylab, a Yirra Yaakin and Black Swan coproduction staged in the Studio Underground at the State Theatre Centre, opens to the strummed chords of David Bowie’s 1972 hit Starman. This is a fitting entry into a play that deals with the belief that some outside source will provide the answers to our problems, and that our dreams may come true, if we only wish hard enough.' (Introduction)
'In 1979 a space station that had been launched into Earth's outer orbit came hurtling back towards the planet, crashing on Western Australia's south-east coast.' (Introduction)
'In 1979 a space station that had been launched into Earth's outer orbit came hurtling back towards the planet, crashing on Western Australia's south-east coast.' (Introduction)
'Melodie Reynolds-Diarra’s Skylab, a Yirra Yaakin and Black Swan coproduction staged in the Studio Underground at the State Theatre Centre, opens to the strummed chords of David Bowie’s 1972 hit Starman. This is a fitting entry into a play that deals with the belief that some outside source will provide the answers to our problems, and that our dreams may come true, if we only wish hard enough.' (Introduction)
