DUST
Director & Choreographer, Set & Costume Designer
Milk Crate Theatre
... Part Kafka, part ten deep breaths, entrancing, encompassing and intimate - DUST kicks up themes of perception, deception and the longing to escape.
A group of individuals find themselves trapped in a country motel during a dust storm, seemingly blown in by the arrival of a self-professed travelling sage. As they are forced to share space, each person finds themselves at a point of reckoning with their own sense of purpose.
DUST is an intimate and immersive experience of theatre, movement, lighting and sound, with nods to Outback Noir, the teachings of Plato, Surrealism, and The Breakfast Club.
Made by and with Milk Crate Theatre Collaborative Artists
Behind the scenes video: The making of DUST by Milk Crate Theatre
Director/designer Margot Politis achieves great success with guiding the development of both story and characters. She also inspires the confidence of the cast to use text, movement, stillness, and silence to great effect. There is beauty in experiencing performers working to the edges of their ability ...
The fragility of human connection, our hopes, dreams, and regrets are conveyed through the unity of design and performance – and importantly the subversive relationship the audience has with the action as we are sitting right in the middle of it all!
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Kate Gaul, Theatre Travels
2022, The Richard Wherrett Studio, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
CREATIVE TEAM​
Created by:
Milk Crate Theatre Collaborative Artists and the Artistic Team
Director: Margot Politis
Devisers and Performers: Desmond Edwards, Lana Filies, Matthias Nudl, Darlene Proberts, Kamini Singh
Assistant Director: Lily Hayman
Key Support Artist: Lucy Watson
Milk Crate Theatre Social Worker: Laura Hurstfield
Producer: Jessica Saras
Production Manager: Tyler Fitzpatrick (Paperjam Partners)
Lighting Designer: Liam O'Keefe
Sound Designer: Prema Yin
Set & Costume Designer: Margot Politis
Set Support: Sam Read
Photography: Robert Catto
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