Your Daybill
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Duration 40 mins, no interval
Warnings Contains references to mental illness, bright flashes of light and sustained periods of darkness. Recommended for audiences 15+
Note Latecomers will not be admitted
The Nightline team acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We acknowledge their continuous connection to their country, and pay respect to all First Peoples attending this event.
Very special thanks to the hundreds of big-hearted late-night anonymous callers who have trusted us with their words. The original Nightline Brainstrust: Sam Kanaan-Oringo, Harsh Yalam, Krystal Docker, Anshika Sharma and Kellie Zhao-Culpan. Project champions: Rajni Shah, ABC Overnights, 3AW Australia Overnight, Ben Starick at Starling Communications, Jane Schon, Phil Punch, Liza Bahamondes and Bronwyn Dennis at City of Sydney, Rosie Dennis, Utp and Blacktown Arts Centre.
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Images Sarah Walker and Joshua Morris
Creative Team
Director/Co-Creator Roslyn Oades
Sound Artist/Co-Creator Bob Scott
Lighting Design & Coding Fausto Brusamolino
Site Design Clare Britton
Concierge Katia Molino
Understudy Jacqy Phillips
Switchboard Designer Greg Cameron
Technical Director Keith Tucker, Megafun
Stage Manager & Operator Jem Hoppe-Smith
Producer Michaela Coventry, Sage Arts
Background
The Nightline is an immersive audio experience about the city at night composed from a vast collection of real-life anonymous voice messages, left between the hours of midnight and 6am. Throughout the past two years, director Roslyn Oades has engaged with Australia’s night community via overnight talkback radio, street posters, social media, word of mouth, and an array of night-industry services. A poor sleeper herself, she was curious to hear who else was awake in the wee the hours and what they were doing, thinking, remembering. The real-life anonymous voices featured in The Nightline include new parents, insomniacs, truck drivers, nurses, bar staff, students, gamers and all manner of nocturnal guardians, restless souls and shift workers (several of whom have become regular callers). Close to one thousand late-night anonymous voice messages have been collected in the making of this work thus far, via a dedicated Nightline message bank – which is still open and taking calls. The team behind The Nightline have been incredibly touched by the generosity and openness of our late-night callers, without whom this work would not be possible.
If you’d like to learn more about The Nightline’s phone message collection process, or if you’d like to contribute your own late-night anonymous message, please visit www.nightlineproject.com
About the Artists
At the heart of The Nightline is a creative partnership between theatremaker Roslyn Oades and sound artist Bob Scott, in what is their fifth audio-theatre collaboration. In the spirit of creative non-fiction, The Nightline sees them recompose from a rich palette of found sounds, field recordings, phone messages, original composition and site responsive design to create a highly-crafted and immersive audio world. In the development and realisation of this concept, Roslyn and Bob have been blessed with an extraordinary team of collaborating artists: Fausto Brusamolino, Clare Britton and Katia Molino.
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