Choreographer Lucy Guerin’s new show is aiming for originality in the most fundamental sense. Called Conversation Piece, the work will involve a group of actors and dancers meeting on stage and beginning the show with a short conversation about… anything. Each night it will be a different, unscripted conversation – and this will form the basis of the rather surprising performance that follows. As a result, the show promises to be different each time.
The project began as a simple experiment: what happens when you put three dancers and three actors together in a room? “The result is both a mesmerising cultural encounter between two art forms, and a kind of x-ray of the surprising hugeness that lies beneath our daily chitchat,” according to the publicity material.
The cast comprises Alison Bell (star of the ABC's Laid, Megan Holloway, Alisdair Macindoe, Rennie McDougall, Harriet Ritchie and Matthew Whittet.
Dates: 25 August – 23 September
Venue Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hill, Sydney