CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) explores the notorious ‘children overboard’ affair of 2001, transforming a Senate Inquiry into public deception into a horribly funny tragedy.
The Wages of Spin cleverly examines the issues surrounding the ‘intelligence’ reports that were used as the pretext for Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war. Subversive, witty and playful, The Wages of Spin juxtaposes the media’s obsession with stardom with the shocking realities of war.
Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue distils 8,800 pages of the Cole Inquiry into the ‘wheat-for-weapons’ scandal into provocative and entertaining theatre. Australian government ministers and Australian Wheat Board executives all seemed to suffer from collective amnesia about AWB paying Saddam Hussein’s regime $250 million in bribes, even as Australia was preparing for war against Iraq.
VERSION 1.0 is a Sydney-based group of artists who make devised performances that are both political and intensely personal, based on strong research, and that engage with significant political and social issues using innovative theatrical strategies. version 1.0 is acclaimed in Australia for its innovative, accessible and entertaining blend of documentary theatre, contemporary performance, and media spectacle. Previous performance works include The Disappearances Project, The Table of Knowledge, the Green Room Award-winning The Bougainville Photoplay Project, A Distressing Scenario, seven kilometres north-east, the Helpmann Award-winning THIS KIND OF RUCKUS, the Drover’s Award-winning Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue, The Wages of Spin, CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident), From a Distance and The Second Last Supper. Founded in 1998, version 1.0 was granted Key Organisation status by the Theatre Board of the Australia Council in 2009. Its team is made up of Dr David Williams as CEO, Jocelyn Payne as general manager, Sandy Collins as producer, Cara Anderson as development manager, Emma Bedford as production manager, Rebecca Saffir as media and marketing officer, and Sean Bacon, Irving Gregory, Jane Phegan, Paul Prestipino, Dr Yana Taylor, Kym Vercoe as the artists.
| Cast Info | 3F, 10M |
| Genres | Verbatim / close work theatre |
| Themes | Political/Social themes, Large Cast |
| Audiences | Adult |
| Extent | 148 |
| Edition | Standard |
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