To add a little intellectual cred, there’s relative text from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir. Sydney Bouhaniche’s stark, glaring lighting evokes the hard, uncompromising, unwavering unaesthetic aesthetic of places we go to die. Nick Wishart’s sound design and composition is perfect; whether it’s the jaunty entry and exit music for little miss DJs, or Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life as an affirming closer. Joanne Saad’s cold imagery is key, too, in painting the twilight. Lloyd Bradford Syke
This remarkable and incisively relevant collaboration, envisioned and conceived by director Carlos Gomes, deals with the growing needs of an ageing community. It focuses on the inhabitants and carers of a care facility, that, in its promotional material suggests it is ' cutting edge' in quality. Kevin Jacson
The director, Carlos Gomes, who is also Artistic Director of this company, has employed Video/photo (Joanne Saad) and a Sound Design/Composition (Nick Wishart. Editor: Fadia Aboud) to inject humour, irony and pathos into the performance. The choice of music is especially comforting and reassuring. The lighting (Sydney Bouhaniche) bathes and reflects the experience of the characters subtly and is supportive of the video work. Kevin Jacson
All the elements of this production - text, physicality, new media and sound - combine with poetic dimension and depth to shed compelling light on our individual and collective grief around ageing and loss: of bodily capacity and functions; of agency; of memory; of relatives, parents and of self....and pointless endings and of the unremitting and unrelenting, inexorable march of ageing and how we can and do not deal with it. Memorable and haunting. Arts Hub
This productionnot only givers you an insight into what lies ahead. It is atthe same time a glorious celebration of life itself. I am rarely blunt about this sort of thing - but I do hope those organisations with the resources to pick up this show and give in further live consider thast option seriously.
I’ve pushed a dozen reviews aside to get this up because it’s a short season. Trust me on this one: it’s a fabulous show. James Waites
The show's conclusion, a loud blast of life-affirming rock'n'roll, can be experienced as celebratory or cruelly ironic. This is a finely wrought, challenging work and hard to view without pondering what is in store - be it for our parents, ourselves or our children. Sydney Morning Herald.
“For your own sake, don’t miss the Bus.”
AUSTRALIANSTAGE
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
“…Truly one of the most beautiful productions I have seen in a long time.”
JAMES WAITES ON LINE REVIEW
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
“…the performance never loses touch with the humanity of its subjects…is visceral, tactile and emotional.”
SOUTH SYDNEY HERALD
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
“This is a wonderful show…one of the most celebratory pieces of theatre you will encounter.”
SUN HERALD
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
To add a little intellectual cred, there’s relative text from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir. Sydney Bouhaniche’s stark, glaring lighting evokes the hard, uncompromising, unwavering unaesthetic aesthetic of places we go to die. Nick Wishart’s sound design and composition is perfect; whether it’s the jaunty entry and exit music for little miss DJs, or Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life as an affirming closer. Joanne Saad’s cold imagery is key, too, in painting the twilight. Lloyd Bradford Syke
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
This remarkable and incisively relevant collaboration, envisioned and conceived by director Carlos Gomes, deals with the growing needs of an ageing community. It focuses on the inhabitants and carers of a care facility, that, in its promotional material suggests it is ' cutting edge' in quality. Kevin Jacson
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
The director, Carlos Gomes, who is also Artistic Director of this company, has employed Video/photo (Joanne Saad) and a Sound Design/Composition (Nick Wishart. Editor: Fadia Aboud) to inject humour, irony and pathos into the performance. The choice of music is especially comforting and reassuring. The lighting (Sydney Bouhaniche) bathes and reflects the experience of the characters subtly and is supportive of the video work. Kevin Jacson
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
All the elements of this production - text, physicality, new media and sound - combine with poetic dimension and depth to shed compelling light on our individual and collective grief around ageing and loss: of bodily capacity and functions; of agency; of memory; of relatives, parents and of self....and pointless endings and of the unremitting and unrelenting, inexorable march of ageing and how we can and do not deal with it. Memorable and haunting. Arts Hub
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
This productionnot only givers you an insight into what lies ahead. It is atthe same time a glorious celebration of life itself. I am rarely blunt about this sort of thing - but I do hope those organisations with the resources to pick up this show and give in further live consider thast option seriously.
I’ve pushed a dozen reviews aside to get this up because it’s a short season. Trust me on this one: it’s a fabulous show. James Waites
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago
The show's conclusion, a loud blast of life-affirming rock'n'roll, can be experienced as celebratory or cruelly ironic. This is a finely wrought, challenging work and hard to view without pondering what is in store - be it for our parents, ourselves or our children. Sydney Morning Herald.
gomescarlosgomes 11 months ago