-•- upcoming: Sanctum's zero projects 2009
This year Sanctum presents one show a month between March and November (except July) as part of the Zero Projects 2009 season.Zero Projects 2009 is an animism for the Twenty First Century, bringing to life locations in and around Brunswick through story, revery and revelry. Zero Projects 2009  bowerfamily portrait Aug 2009 | A clandestine performance installation about homes and homelessness, nests and memories. "I didn't know whether I was meant to be a person or a bird," audience member. Thurs 27, Fri 28 & Sat 29 Aug meet at 4 Sturrock St, East Brunswick 8pm, F$15/C$10 enquiries: call Lachlan on 0432 103 538 or email on
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click here to book click here for directions | Zero Projects 2009 Wealth of Nationssept 2009 presented in collaboration with Fenestra Theatre Productions | Back by popular demand.
Enter the carnival of democracy, board the merry-go-round of free trade, ride the rollercoaster of exchange. Sanctum invites all merchants of mania, hawkers of hubris, snake oil salesmen and pedlars of useless pendants to peddle their wares in the Wealth of Nations market place. If you have an act or object or anything else that you want to sell for peanuts, please click here to download an application form. Thur 24, Fri 25 & Sat 26 Sept
Thur 1, Fri 2 & Sun 3 Oct
8pm til late (stay tuned for performance schedule)
F$15/C$10
at 'Wall Street on Barkly', 162 Barkly St East Brunswick
enquiries: call Lachlan on 0432 103 538
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| | Zero Projects 2009  above the fallsaug 2009 | A clandestine performance installation on and beside the Yarra. Thurs 26, Fri 27 & Sat 28 Nov Dights Falls 8pm, F$15/C$10
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...also An Inconvenient Spoof, a shadow puppet show by Steve Mushin Thurs 29, Fri 30 & Sat 31 October...stay tuned for further details...
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flightjune 2009 by Colleen Burke | A woman is bound by love and duty to care for a man trapped by his body. Once upon a time a shapeshifting crow visited their home. If you grew wings would you fly away? An uplifting backyard tale. The audience described it as, 'emotionally overwhelming', 'made me awkward then happy', 'WOW! ...(thanks for the sanga mate)', and, 'made me want to create a cheese circus and wear a mouse as bling..."
Click here to view documentation of the show.
Click here to download the bedtime story of Hrabrejshaja and Baba Yaga. The 3 Ravens brewing company www.3ravens.com.au. | Zero Projects 2009
Bower family portrait april 2009 | Bower was a clandestine performance installation about homes and homelessness, nests and memories. Bower existed in two halves. The first half occurred at 4 Sturrock St where the guests were greeted at the gate and led into an anthropomorphic world of man and bird. The final half took place in the burnt out shell of what was once a great mansion. "I didn't know whether I was meant to be a person or a bird." --audience member.
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Wealth of Nationsmarch 2009 presented in collaboration with Fenestra Theatre Productions | "There's no such thing as society,” Margaret Thatcher. On Friday 20th March Sanctum Theatre celebrated the 233rd anniversary of Adam Smith’s seminal work, Wealth of Nations. The ship may be sinking, the ‘invisible hand’ might have lost its grip on the invisible wheel, but there is an alternative. On the 20th Sanctum broke away from the globular economic system and realised Smith’s ideal economic order on a small patch of turf in Brunswick. Links:
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archive: sanctum 2005 - 2008 The Plains a play directed by Lachlan Plain August 2008
| “Anyone surrounded from childhood by an abundance of level land must dream alternatively of exploring two landscapes – one continually visible but not accessible and the other always invisible even though one crossed and recrossed it daily.” The Plains: a play is Lachlan Plain’s adaptation of Gerald Murnane’s The Plains: a novel (Patrick White Award 1999, NSW Premier’s Award 2007), via the paintings of Philip Hunter and the music of Sebastian Jorgensen.
A filmmaker travels from his coastal exterior ‘towards the heart of some remote private plain…' Presented by VCA Drama and Sanctum Theatre as part of the 'VCA Drama 2008 Master of Theatre Practice Performance Season'.
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| Lament candles & compost  directed by Lachlan Plain September 2006 | "Resurrection through decomposition." Sanctum Theatre was launched in Spring 2006 at the Abbotsford Convent with its inaugral production, Lament: candles & compost. Lament was described by the Age as, “Full of striking images… shadowplay and puppetry were absorbingly innovative” , and by Inpress as being a, “Startling work that is at once confronting and yet comforting.” Links:
| corpus christi
devised and performed by Lachlan Plain June 2005 | Devised through the postgraduate puppetry diploma at the Victorian College of the Arts, this 15 minute solo performance formed the basis for the following years Lament: candles & compost. "...In this version the Son of Man never leaves us, but can forever be heard jamming in the bowels of the Earth providing music for those who liveth upon Her surface." Links:
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archive: sanctum gallery Silent Revolution
curated by Jasmine Powell October 2007
| Protagonist, housemate, friend, lover and mother exhibit in the home works on paper, canvas and fabric, furniture, photographs, objects, sound and in conversation. Links:
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Click here to view artistic director, Lachlan Plain's folio. |