Belonging Showcase

ABOUT THE PLAY

"Home – here, there, everywhere. Bits of us everywhere..."

Neither Here Nor There 

A young migrant woman searches for connection with her birth country. Severed by years of separation, her birth country has become faded memories while her new country is a place where she has no roots. Is home where you feel most connected, or where you have your roots?

The Misfits

Being vegan is the new hype... unless you come from a family of blood-thirsty demons fighting to inherit the family business... a multi-generational company specialising in the sale of human hearts. Mara is faced with her ultimate challenge: to help her mum win the inheritance while staying a closeted vegan. For there is nothing more shameful than a vegan demon.  

The Cut That Always Bleeds 

Med students Mimi, Dan and Petra live together in a share-house in Melbourne. It’s best friends, romances and movie nights... until it’s graduation, breakups and dying parents. Years later, they reunite to confront that pivotal period in their lives. Can past choices ever be remedied? Or will they continue to haunt the trio's adult lives?

From South-East Asia to South Asia to Melbourne, three stories collectively asking where is home? What is the price you must pay to achieve a sense of belonging?

CONTENT WARNINGS

Viewers should be advised this performance contains coarse language, raised voices, banging, screaming, references to death, references to cancer, depictions of imitated surgery, depiction of violence and weapon use, implications of surgical malpractice, allusions to murder, allusions to cannibalism, mentions of alcoholism, mentions of gambling, references to women's experience and gender roles, references to immigrant experience, references to perceptions towards bodyweight and extended discussions of food.  

SESSIONS

Thu 29 August 7.30-9pm 

Fri 30 August 7.30-9pm

Sat 31 August 7.30-9pm

IMPORTANT INFO

Run time: approx. 90min with no interval (3 shows will be running back-to-back)

SPECIAL TICKETS

Cipta Member tickets are strictly for current Cipta members only. Each member can redeem one discounted ticket using their unique membership number during checkout. If a membership number is missing or invalid or has been used to purchase more than one ticket, please be advised that ticket will be invalid and will be cancelled by event organiser. 

Companion tickets are only applicable to people in a caretaker role accompanying a person with disability to the show. You must be able to provide a valid companion card in order to be admitted into the show. 

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair access and seating

Hearing assist system, infrared pendants are available and may be collected from Box Office prior to performance

Elevators, escalators and staircases allow for various access paths to Level 2 theatres

There are accessible toilets available in the Arts & Cultural Building on all levels

All performances will be captioned

VENUE

Guild Theatre*, University of Melbourne Arts & Cultural Building, 761 Swanston St, Parkville VIC 3010

*This is the NEW Guild Theatre which is in the new Arts & Cultural Building in a different area of Melbourne University to the Guilds' historical location in Union House.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Cipta Theatre Company acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. Upon whose lands we come together to live, work and perform. This country has known song, dance, art and storytelling since the beginning of all things. As artists we are honoured to contribute and to be a part of the continuation of storytelling, here in this Kulin Nations country.

As we tell our stories about migration, heritage, identity and belonging, we remember we’re telling them as settlers on stolen land who benefit from the ongoing dispossession of First Nations people. As a company, Cipta stands with First Nations people globally and in so-called Australia and we affirm that sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to elders, past and present, as well as any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders attending the show. We call for truth-telling, treaty and above all decolonisation of all areas of society, especially the arts.

We would also like to encourage those who would like to do more to look into organisations such as Pay The Rent and visit and support Camp Sovereignty.This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.