Deceased Estate
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008
Listing information
Venue: The House, 244 Blyth St, East Brunswick MEL REF: 30 B7, Google Maps
Preview Dates:
Wed 24/09/2008
Season Dates:
Thurs 25/09/2008 - Sat 04/10/2008 (not Mon/Tues) 8pm every session.
Tickets:
Preview $10.00, Conc $15.00, Full $20.00
Contact Will on 0425 737 146 or sense@roundangle.com.au for more details.
Bookings: Festival Tix: 03 9660 9666 or www.melbournefringe.com.au
Watch the life of a fine old period home flash before your eyes as the auctioneer's hammer cracks open this prime inner suburban corner plot.
Make sure you're on the list of those lucky few who'll get a sneak taste of this gourmet slice of real estate before she gets served up to the hungry market. Take a tour through the history-filled grounds and re-live a memory or two…
Captivating Smell
(Arts Victoria, Arts Innovation Project with smell technology company, Air Aroma)
September 2007 – June 2008
This project is a collaboration between the multi-sensory theatre practitioners Roundangle and the company Air Aroma in the project ‘Captivating Smell’ during September 2007 through May 2008. The project will research the psychology of smell and investigate techniques for distributing smells in the performance environment by theatre practitioners.
You can close your eyes, cover your ears, refrain from touch and reject taste, but smell is part of the air we breathe. It’s the one sense you can’t turn off. We smell with every breath we take, and that’s around 20,000 each day. It is also the sense we most take for granted. There’s no cultural activity that caters to it – no sniffing galleries, no concertos written to surround us with odour, no special menu of smells created for grand occasions and yet… it is the most direct and basic sense.
“Brand Sense” Martin Lindstrom p.21, Free Press, New York 2005
Tales From the Scent Latched Suitcases
(for Melbourne Fringe Festival )
July – October 2008
Tales from the Scent Latched Suitcases is an investigation of smell as a portal between our inner and outer worlds. Smell is the most ephemeral – and thus ‘magical’ – of the senses. In our meditation on the nature of smell we wish to explore its transdimensional, unfathomable powers at linking us to our past through an investigation of smell and memory with our characters Henry, Lily and Rosemary.
Other Smells
(in partnership with Gippsland Multicultural Services)
July – Dec 2008
Other Smells is an investigation into smell and cultural perception. Roundangle proposes to work with people who have migrated to the Latrobe Valley region from culturally diverse backgrounds, both those that have recently arrived and those who have been settled for many years. We aim to explore through the stories and insights of participants how smell is interpreted in different cultures and how the smell of people from other cultures is perceived. Roundangle will facilitate the expression of their ideas through scent, food, colour, sound and movement. The public outcome will be an interactive, promenade style performance that takes the audience on a journey through the cultural, mental and experiential worlds of the participants, highlighting the important role smell plays in defining identity and acceptance.
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they could not escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who could not defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men. “Perfume”
Patrick Suskind p.161, Penguin Books Australia 2003
