sporepunk and theatre works present
by audley anderson and haz lugsdin
The Sour Glitch Refusal
CANCELLED
The Sour Glitch Refusal
VENUE
by audley anderson and haz lugsdin
The Sour Glitch Refusal is a vicarious riddle room with little room for diligence. Wordplay is foreplay, sense is nonsense, clues are costumes and the escape is in the doing.
With players and protagonists, They and Them, you are locked in an ‘80s corporate workroom. Beige, banal and bereft. The printer is broken, the plants are wilting, the water cooler drips slowly. There are no colleagues in sight. There’s been a murder on the work floor.
They (and Them) have one hour to solve the mystery and make an escape.
Performers and creators Audley Anderson and Haz Lugsdin draw on drag, comedy, and performance art to create joyful (and disturbing) boinks through the binary and out The Wazoo.
“...bold, urgent and abstract; audiences are engaged and invested, and ultimately challenged, and then enlightened by where their work lands. These artists are marked with so much potential. They are making inventive and exceptional work.” Claud Bailey (Wear It Purple Arts Leader Fellowship Recipient 2023).
Explosives Factory
Rear Laneway 67 Inkerman Street, St Kilda
DURATION
60 Minutes
WARNINGS
Strobe, haze, allusions to suicide, nudity, coarse language
ACCESSIBILITY
Explosives Factory is accessed via a flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible.
DATES + TIMES
Tuesday 23 January - 7:30pm
Wednesday 24 January - 7:30pm
Thursday 25 January - 7:30pm
Saturday 27 January - 2:00pm
Saturday 27 January - 7:30pm
Theatre Works has a lockout policy for latecomers. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don't miss out.
Refunds will not be issued to latecomers.
TICKETS
FULL PRICE
$30.00
CONCESSION*
$25.00
PREVIEW
N/A
20 at $20**
$20.00
MOB TIX
$20.00
*Seniors, Student, MEAA, Health Care and Low Income card holders
**Limited to 20 tickets per performance
Theatre Works has been long established as the south-side festival hub in Melbourne.
Theatre Works’ MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL HUB will be buzzing with 8 ground-breaking shows across 2 performance spaces. A truly queer program that embraces and celebrates the whole rainbow community.
CREDITS
DEVISED AND PERFORMED BY
Sophie Strykowski as They
Haz Lugsdin as Them
Audley Anderson as Me
CREATED BY
Audley Anderson
Haz Lugsdin
SOUND DESIGN BY
Ashleigh Hazel
PRODUCED BY
Sporepunk
MEET THE ARTIST -
SPOREPUNK
Sporepunk is a performance collective founded by Audley Anderson and Haz Lugsdin creating bold and bewildering theatre works beyond the binary. They use intuitive making as revelation for the non-binary and trans experience, whilst centering joy and rambunctious risk. Sporepunk creates a container for interdisciplinary magic by a cast of queer collaborators from inception to performance. Previous works include Rising Damp: A Sporepunk unearthing of a queer utopia (La Mama HQ), Twin Flame/Dead Spit (Melbourne Fringe), The Sour Glitch Two-Step Refusal (Brand X), and 101011001: Dude, Where’s My Gender? (Giant Dwarf).
