OBSERVER: One Night Only
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents One Night Only by Jackson Castiglione and Rawcus from November 26-30 at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre.
Multidisciplinary artist Jackson Castiglione (Field Theory, ICON, Anything & Everything) makes innovative live experiences that champion the voices of ordinary people. In this new theatrical adventure, One Night Only, he teams up with members of the award-winning Rawcus (Interior, Glass), an ensemble of artists with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations.
Each night, a different local resident from the City of Darebin stars in the leading role of One Night Only as the ‘Protagonist’, playing out their lives before the audience.
With the Rawcus artists as their supporting cast members, the Protagonist jumps through time, reenacting the pivotal moments of grief, love, heartbreak, joy, conflict and serendipity that have shaped who they are – with the audience as their witness.
Themes of parenthood, ancestry, memory, relationships, birth and death recur, revealing both diversity and universality of experience.
The form of One Night Only is a daring undertaking: the Protagonist is a non-performer, diving in unrehearsed, sharing the journey of their life with an audience for the first time.
How will they navigate this adventure? The immediacy and danger of this live, on-stage challenge is a constant source of fascination and tension as the audience hopes for them to succeed.
Jackson Castiglione makes playful, subversive and life-affirming contemporary theatre in collaboration with kids and communities.
He loves working with interesting people and creating work that celebrates the ways in which anyone, whether or not they consider themselves to be an artist, can offer something to stimulate and challenge our cultural, social and political ideas and assumptions.
Critically acclaimed Rawcus, known for making works of scale with their large ensemble, take a new direction in this intimate production with just three cast members, whom audiences will get to know in a much more immediate way.
Performance Dates: November 26 – 30. Wed. – Fri .7.30pm; Sa.t 2pm, 7.30pm
Venue: Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High St, Northcote
Tickets: arts.darebin.vic.gov.au/Programs-and-opportunities/Programs/Speakeasy-presentations/One-Night-Only
Cheryl Threadgold