Ado is a celebrated young man with talent and choice who, according to his family and friends, is at the pinnacle of his potential. So what’s happened and where has he gone?
Charge your mobile, friend Ado on Facebook and travel on a bus to visit places where he lives and plays, interacting with him along the way. Will you get to meet and intercept him or will he continually stay just out of reach?
The real world of a country town is dubbed, daubed and overlaid with the symbols, images and memes that give you, the audience, clues to Ado, his life, associations and inner most thoughts. "Black" is steeped in ambiguity and fluidity of time delivering you information from the past, present and future. Operatic in scale and emotion this new immersive semi-site specific performance installation work is imaginatively visceral and wholly affecting.
Constructed by: Gavin Clarke, John Crouch, Cindi Drennan, Jess Foster, Jamie Harding, Tyson Hopprich, Caleb Lewis, James Lloyd-Smith, Joel Panther, Chris Petridis, Michael Marner, Steve Mayhew, Steve Tilling, and Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart
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This project is assisted by the Australian Government through the Theatre Board of the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body, and by the Government of South Australia through Arts SA’s Festivals Commissioning Fund.
