ATTRACT/REPEL by The Melbourne Town Players
Fringe @ The Store Room
An installed, performance-interrogation into self and the other. What's your favourite topping on toast? How would you describe the colour of your skin? How un-Australian are you? In Attract/Repel, writer and director Ming-Zhu Hii takes a bold, raw, and idiosyncratic new look at race and identity, similarity and difference, and the age-old issue of us and them. Visually and aurally stunning, it is a brazen new work that pushes artistic as well as thematic boundaries. It challenges old assumptions, and asks big and tricky questions of its audience. With a dramatically diverse creative team, The Melbourne Town Players interrogates who we are, how we behave, and why we are still being racist.
Presented by
The Store Room
Directed and Devised by
Ming-Zhu Hii