about
Body Uncertain is a collection of poems written in lonely times and performed by lonely actors. The designer designed alone in her room and the director directed over email and zoom, a physicist edited a google doc. We have made art in isolation, but we did it together and now we want to share it with you.
Body Uncertain began as an ambitious work with a dozen dramaturgical tags and pages of notes, illustrations, and big questions. It was going to look a certain way and the audience was going to feel amazing things and we were going to explode onto the stage like a supernova. Then of course, another famous Melbourne lockdown. The shining light of live theatre became a thousand “cancelled” posts on Instagram, and the future of Body Uncertain was…well, uncertain. Our laptops were no longer a placeholder for a studio, they were all we were going to have.
It got hard. But then we had one of those rehearsals, you might know the kind. Everyone was tired from lockdown exhaustion and zoom fatigue and the constant anxiety that has taken root at the base of our skulls, but somehow by the end of this Monday late-night rehearsal we were all alert, inspired, laughing, and genuinely excited about the potential that a digital work would open to us.
Every day I am amazed at the amount of creativity and innovation that has emerged onto our little digital stage. There are so many images and ideas that haven’t made it into the work because there simply wasn’t the time or the space or the express delivery available to us, but what is in here is so precious, so valuable, and so beautiful. It’s unpolished, but it’s not unfinished, and I can’t wait for you to experience it.
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"Incredibly moving"
"Masterpiece!"
"Inspiring"
"beautiful. truly. thankyou for bringing back theatre in such an interconnected, thought provoking way"
"so beautiful, absolutely loved every second"