- From Australia's Back to Back Theatre
"small metal objects" - FOUR PERFORMANCES
AT THE UNIVERSITY MALL IN SO. BURLINGTON!
Saturday-Sunday, May 17-18, 2008 at 12 & 4 pm - $28 adults, $24 students
The Sunday, 4 pm show will have
audio description and ASL interpretation.
"small metal objects draws attention to the people we habitually crop out of the picture." —Sydney Sun Herald (Australia)
An ingenious theatrical gem from Australia, small metal objects unfolds amid
real shopping mall pedestrian traffic, the plot unbeknownst to passers-by.
On raised seating with individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired
in to an intensely personal drama as Gary and Steve, the kind of men who
normally escape notice, play an inadvertent but pivotal role in an arranged
transaction. As the intimacy and mystery of their situation develops,
this spectacle of the ordinary becomes a sly and luminous depiction
of everyday issues most of us take for granted. This one-of-a-kind
experience has become an international and critical hit.
Funded in part by the Flynn Center General Endowment, created thanks to community contributions and challenge grants from the Ford Foundation and the Argosy Foundation and by the Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation.



