Human’s Got Talent - Program
Solomon Frank - Human’s Got Talent (Naughty Girls Unite XD)
Human's Got Talent (naughty girlies unite XD) was written in collaboration with an AI art bot (Dartabot7-21-3-7-6-4-8-18-6-2-11-3-1-12-7) from the year 2122 and Rover, the hyper intelligent talking dog from the year 2456, as an entry into the inter-temporal TV talent contest "Human's Got Talent". The work engages with nuanced issues of queer representation in the face of corporate tokenism with the aim of positioning LGBTQIA+ rights within a larger interconnected social mandate, where we cannot accept token queer representation while ignoring other social justice issues like climate emergency and wealth inequality. The work acknowledges this social responsibility (given the privilege of having a platform), both to represent queer people and to challenge dominant paradigms around LGBTQIA+ representation while reflecting the convergent forces of reality TV, commercialisation and Rupaul's fracking empire.
Liz Yung Cheung - When You Lose Your Marbles You Might Find Something Else Instead (or, Broken Chords Don’t Need To Be Fixed) (World Premiere)
This piece is about losing your marbles, which, weirdly, is not the first piece Liz has written that is to do with marbles. You know those times when something malfunctions, and the next thing glitches, then everything starts to fall apart? The whole day becomes off-kilter - it’s frustrating, exhausting, discombobulating, unprelufuguiating, divertimentotalling. Surely nothing else could go wrong, right? Wrong. Right. And when you try to hold onto the remaining marbles, they lose their cool-to-touch, spherical, planetary, orb shapes, and start melting through your fingers and bouncing away even though they weren’t made of bouncy ball material a minute ago. None of this makes much sense. All that is to say... in the end, the lesson you may have to learn is that sometimes, you do have to give up. And maybe giving up and letting go might not be so bad. Sometimes it can do you good, and you might find something better in place of the marbles. Disclaimer: this blurb does not apply to every situation. Please exercise caution and observation of contextual nuance before giving up.
Jaslyn Robertson - Blackout Diary
Radha - Gay Hipster Nightmare
After a 6 month voluntary immersion into her family in Singapore, Radha returns with tales of her escapades of Asia. A show and tell if you will. You've been warned.