Part theatre, part game, and part social experiment, TRADE explored how and why we ascribe value to objects, and what happens when market forces are at play.
“TRADE: an ingenious live-action game” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hannah Francis, The Age Newspaper
In a hustle-wins Exchange (a low-fi version of the old-school Stock Exchange) audience members are divided into four competing Corporations. Members (audience) of each Corporation ascribe value and meaning to a variety of crappy second-hand objects. They create the rules of the market (democratically or otherwise) and how market value works. Audience members are urged on by the Exchange's slogan: Trade like there's no Tomorrow!
From Bull to Bear and back again, markets soar and crash! The Exchange is relentless and Corporate competitiveness intense.
TRADE premiered at Melbourne Fringe festival 2023. A bilingual work (Mandarin/English) TRADE was created with Barking Spider Creative and 3rd year Monash uni students. TRADE was supported by Monash University's Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, and Monash Performing Arts Centres.
Artists
Penelope Bartlau - Director & Designer
Justin Gardam - Sound Designer
Chris Cody - Lighting Design consultant
Marcel Dorney - Producer
Sian Halloran - Production Manager
Students
Yuhan Ye, Aidan Wiringi Jones, Charlie Clark, Maya Hobley,
Cyrus Huang, Erikyle Aguilar, Ebony Borg, Kiyasha Kohombanwickramage,
Xianyu Li, Daniel Ka Lok, Andre Papadopoulos, Jasmine Zhou
Documentation
Videographer - John Lloyd Fillingham
Video editor - Penelope Bartlau
TRADE premiered on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation.
30 янв 2024
