Rate of Decay

RATE OF DECAY

What Remains When There’s Nothing Left?

By Xanthe Jones

Rate of Decay is an original Australian Gothic play for youth performers, told through a series of haunting vignettes. Spanning from the gold rush to a nuclear apocalypse, it drifts through an orphanage, beauty pageant, police interrogation room, coastal town, a cult leader's table, and other strange and mysterious corners of the country. Each story explores themes of isolation, paranoia, violence, and lingering questions when someone or something is lost. Laced with dark humour, Rate of Decay explores place, time and people as they inhabit the shadows of the Australian psyche, before their stories fade again in this gothic anthology.

This festival, Rate of Decay, will have two showings: 1) a theatre performance with industry professional actors and 2) a play reading with high-school age Young Artists. See details for each showing below.

CREATIVES

Playwright/Director | Xanthe Jones

YOUTH CAST

Maddison Bennie

George Brazil

Georgia Brough

Miwanyo Jongen Tsey

Eli Lucre

Saxon Miller

Genevieve Nix

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

PLAY READING WITH YOUNG ARTISTS

DATE: Saturday 11th October, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

VENUE: The Workshop Space
Seven Hills Hub
28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills

TICKETS: General Admission $20, Concession $15 (Use code LOOKUPCONCESSION)

STAGED PRODUCTION

DATES: Thursday 16th October, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Friday 17th October, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

VENUE: The Ron Hurley Theatre
Seven Hills Hub
28 Tallowwood Street, Seven Hills

TICKETS: General Admission $35, Concession $30 (Use code LOOKUPCONCESSION)

AGES & WARNINGS: Suicidal ideation, supernatural themes, stage combat, violence, mild coarse language, abuse. Missing persons, cults, and apocalypse

ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair Accessible.