#NoExemptions
Coming to La Mama Courthouse in 2022
#NOEXEMPTIONS is a play about the last ninety minutes of one woman’s life. This is future environmental Armageddon as experienced by one family, in one city, at one time. It is a mother’s lament, a poet’s surrender, a child’s rebellion and a narcissist’s appreciation of good lipstick…
In this crisis we see the humour of what we value at the end, the strength of our love for each other and the tragic consequences of old mistakes.
#No Exemptions, a new work for theatre, explores a dystopian vision for humanity that is not predictable, but a savage critique of current privilege and inequality—with a twist- and not without humour. Told from the intimacy of one family’s crisis and isolation, the play is a compacted moment in time in which unfolding events are the result of an already projected environmental collapse from climate change, pollution and over consumption. No amount of privilege can protect anyone from the consequences. #No Exemptions is a bold, confronting and provocative statement of human equality. We all share one world.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
KIndly supported by the Besen Family Foundation
Writer: Angela Buckingham
Director: Susie Dee
Sound design: Ian Moorhead
Cast: Carolyn Bock, Tahlee Fereday, Helen Hopkins, Lee Mason, Sahil Saluja
Filmed and edited by Max Hopkins https://www.cascaderclassic.com/
Produced by The Shift Theatre https://theshifttheatre.com/