Top shows to see at OzAsia for cheap

Posted 24 September, 2018 Lauren Ferrone

With OzAsia Festival around the corner, here’s a list of must-see shows to leave you in awe at the talent coming out of the world’s largest continent. Best of all? RAA members get a 10% discount off these shows and many more.

 

Close Company

When: 25–26 October Where: Nexus Arts, Lion Arts Centre, Corner North Tce & Morphett St, Adelaide Duration: 30 minutes Choreographed by Adelaide’s own Alison Currie, Close Company literally gets up close and personal with the audience. Dancers from Singapore’s RAW Moves move their bodies in and around the audience to demonstrate the power of being emotionally and physically connected and dependent on other human beings.

 

Dancing Grandmothers

When: 25–27 October Where: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes Definitely a show to take your grandma to, this contemporary dance performance – Dancing Grandmothers – (pictured top) was inspired by Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn who embarked on a trip around her native country to meet the women who founded modern Korea – many of whom are now grandmothers. The dancers tell the story of these inspirational women before being joined on stage by a group of Korean grandmothers for an epic dance-off.

 

Assembly Operation

Where: 27–28 October When: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre Duration: 1 hour Forget traditional instruments – paper, masking tape, children’s toys and other seemingly everyday objects can have you tapping your feet too. Eugene Ughetti – who is 1 part of this 3-piece percussionist group – came up with the idea to create Assembly Operation where he could share these unique sounds after collecting children’s toys at markets in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

 

 

Here is the message you asked for…

When: 1–3 November Where: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre Duration:1 hour, 10 minutes The stage may be covered in comfy white beds, but the last thing you’ll do is doze off during Here is the message you asked for… – a show created by one of Beijing’s leading theatre figures. It follows a group of millennial girls who are obsessed with using their phones, and eventually become disconnected from the real-world. But it’s you – the audience – who’ll turn into the leading stars when you’re encouraged to download a social app to exchange texts with the girls while they perform. What message do you have to share?

   

Nassim

When: 1–3 November 2018 Where: AC Arts Theatre, 39 Light Square, Adelaide Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes Most big stage performances require months of rehearsals – not Nassim. There are no rehearsals, or even directors. Instead, a sealed box is given to different guest actors each night with a script by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. Although Nassim is a spontaneous show that allows the actors and audience to make the story their own, Soleimanpour originally wrote the script in his native language Farsi so his mother could understand and enjoy his work.