Wednesdays at the End of the World

Over the past year, theatre/music maker Max Barton has been gathering artists and audiences for a series of one-night-only apocalypse experiments — Wednesdays at the End Of the World. Each month, in a new location across Walyalup, four guest artists have responded to a different end-of-the-world scenario — AI takeovers, meteor strikes, judgement days and climate collapses — woven together into a live mixtape of music, theatre and philosophical reflection.

Playful, haunting and surprisingly hopeful, these nights have been about facing the final curtain with humour and honesty, then coming back to the present with fortitude and community spirit. Each event has asked: what do we hold onto when everything is falling away? What can we do together to hold off the inevitable?

For the Fremantle Biennale, Barton assembles a stellar lineup of musicians and storytellers for a one-off panpocalypse finale. Set by the water, it’s an invitation to sit together at the edge, contemplate the worst — and make it to the other side of the night stronger.