The Dinner Party

Presented by VCA Theatre and Design and Production

The graduating Theatre making students, in collaboration with students from Design and Production, are serving up a banquet of new work. Set around an evolving table, these emerging theatre makers have collaborated to create three, 30 minute inventive responses to the prompt of 'entrée, main, dessert'.

Come along to be among the first audiences to experience this exciting program of fresh, new, diverse theatre!

Entrée: The Oyster

Love, why do fight for it? Why do we want it?

At times it is a constant battlefield. But isn’t it still worth it all? Opportunities. Some decisions can alter the course of someone’s life.
Tonight, we present an array of dishes for you to choose from. Which dish will be your favourite?

Content Warnings: Sudden loud noises, Screaming, Loud music, Bright lights, Flashing lights, Crude language, Themes of a sexual nature, Depictions of romantic conflict, Mentions of homophobia, Depictions of casual racism, Close proximity to performers

Main: RED MEAT

Perfectly shiny, smooth and complicit, for all your everyday needs. Freshly wrapped, we’ll mold them for you and get them on their knees.
Warning: subjects may bite.

Content Warnings: Loud Noise, Bright Lights, Flashing Lights, Explicit Language, Sexual References, References to Abuse, Distorted Images, Sexism,  Screaming, References to violence against women

Dessert: Forever Striptease

What is true vulnerability?
Forever Striptease explores the performance of "stripping", mapping the landscapes of vulnerability with a collage of image, text and media. How do you keep stripping back once the striptease is finished?

Content Warnings: Loud sounds, Flashing lights, Bright lights, Full frontal nudity, Audience Interaction (if you do not want to interact with the cast, please sit in the back rows of the seating).

Each of the three courses of The Dinner Party runs for approximately 30 minutes. Latecomers will be admitted at the discretion of front of house.

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