Presented by Born in a Taxi & Gasworks Arts Park
“The Waiting Room is cutting-edge experimental theatre: a profound exploration of how we choreograph ourselves from chaos. What makes this piece radically beautiful is that it interrogates and embodies the random processes intrinsic to human behaviour.” – Cameron Woodhead, The Age
Winner of Brisbane Powerhouse Performance Award (Melbourne Fringe)
The Waiting Room unifies strangers in the spirit of play, in a unique co-creation with the audience. Waiting is a familiar experience we can all relate to.
What are we waiting for… good news, the dentist, judgement day, the end?
After a long wait… Born in a Taxi return with their highly acclaimed performance The Waiting Room. Melbourne’s masters of improvisation and contemporary performance bring you a unique, unrepeatable, experience that places collective human behaviour under the microscope, from the banal to the ridiculous.
“I can say this without hyperbole, it is the most mesmerizing experience that I have had all year in the theatre.”
Nic Velissaris, Australian Stage
Highly physical, non-verbal with live real-time sound composition. Every night will be a unique, unrepeatable improvisation. Empowering and unpredictable, The Waiting Room is an irresistible invitation to connect as the lines seamlessly blur between performers and the audience. Audiences are free to join in or just observe, there is a place for everyone to be as they choose in The Waiting Room.
“Cognitive scientists describe a process in which original ideas crop up at random and then survive or fail in microseconds, depending on their fitness for rapidly changing electrochemical environments produced by surrounding brain activity. The Waiting Room was such an environment.”
Douglas Leonard, RealTime
Born in a Taxi is one of Melbourne’s most highly regarded, award-winning physical theatre ensembles and creators of contemporary performance. Renowned for their immediacy, responsiveness, and interaction with their audience, they are recognised for producing highly original, physically driven, and participatory works in theatres, festivals, in site-specific and outdoor contexts that focus on real-time co-creation.
The Waiting Room Creative Team
Director/ Performer: Penny Baron
Dramaturg/ Performer: Carolyn Hanna
Sound Artist/Composer: Michael Havir
Performers/Collaborators: Nick Papas, Josiah Lulham, Zya Kane
Outside eye: Deb Batton
Lighting Design and Technical Operation: Kate Cameron
Executive Producer: Anna Schoo
Original Concept/Performers/Devisers: Carolyn Hanna, Penny Baron, Nick Papas,
Michael Havir, Kate Hunter, Tamara Saulwick, Andrew Gray
Highlights: World Theatre Festival Powerhouse Brisbane, Big West Festival The Substation, East Gippsland Winter Festival Iceworks Gallery, and heading to Joondalup Festival, Western Australia in 2025.
Dates: February 13,14,15 2025
Times: 8.00 pm
Venue: Gasworks Arts Park
Tickets: Full $40, Wheelchair Accessible Seat $40, Concession $35, Group 6+ $35
Bookings: Buy tickets
