The Hayloft Project
What:
The Hayloft Project
Where:
Double Bill at Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When:
April 24 - May 10, running times here
How much:
3xSisters $25/$35 +BF here
Spring Awakening $20/$30 +BF here
Win:
Thanks to Hayloft, we have 2 dbls to the Sun May 3 Double Bill to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'i have 3xfriends' but I'll dump two to get a ticket'
When it comes to art, it's easy to feel isolated down under. Everything edgy and new in art/music etc seems to sharpen its edge elsewhere. Also it seems we're never really validated until we get some sort of overseas (usually American) endorsement. Not only that but theatre (outside of the broadway musical version) is often seen as the drier intellectual cousin of music, film, visual art and dance. So when it comes to Australians making theatre in their own backyard, it's a bit of an uphill battle to begin with.
Y'know what though? Hayloft Projects are local creatives worth checking out - with everything from blood, tightie whities, special effects, and pop culture references these kids aim high every time, with every production. Their new shows are obviously targeted at younger audience - more MTV than MTC - and it isn't it about time? Hayloft are serious about art - but not about themselves - thank god.
Their next project is the Meat Market Double Bill - first up is 3xsisters by 3xdirectors - three directors to rebrand and repackage this play in 3xacts. Spring Awakening, the other production, was labelled as pornographic in the early 1900s. It was banned for almost a century and its author was jailed for obscenity - .yeah it's pretty hot.
So come get it while it's sharp.
Medium: Performance
Drink: Bottle of red
Keywords: The Hayloft Project, North Melbourne, Theatre
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