immerse - Mandurah Performing Arts Centre

lack swan state theatre company
and sydney theatre company
SIGNS OF LIFE
Principal Partner
by tim winton
Regional Partner
This regional tour is supported through a funding
partnership between the Department of Culture and
the Arts and the Department of Regional Development
and Lands in Western Australia.
sat 30 june – 8 pm
General
Signs of Life is a story about people with uncertain futures navigating with only shreds of the
past to guide them. It’s about the mutual incomprehension between white and black – the
anxiously safe and the pragmatic dispossessed – in country where nobody is really sure they
belong anymore, and where everyone’s fate seems to have been determined by those who came
before.
Bitter and funny, this is a play in which a middle class, middle-aged white woman finds herself
reluctantly sharing a house with black strangers – a stubborn man and his damaged sister –
and they won’t explain why they’re here, why they’ve chosen her, what it is they’re so obviously
searching for, and why she’s beginning to feel like a visitor in her own home Who’s the host
Who’s the visitor And what are all those shadows flitting across the sandy riverbed in the
moonlight
Signs of Life is an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which people with radically different
histories find themselves forming awkward, spiky alliances in order to survive.
“This is a play about people who have little, in a landscape that offers little, finding hope in
unexpected alliances. Signs of Life will touch your heart and ignite your imagination.” ~
Kate Cherry
Suitable for age 13 years and up
Some adult themes
performed by
Ernie Dingo, Helen Morse, George Shevtsov,
Pauline Whyman
director
Kate Cherry
set & costume designer
Zoe Atkinson
lighting designer
Jon Buswell
mandurah performing arts centre
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