SERVICE 

By THE RABBLE

 

SERVICE is a cinematic performance investigating the economics and experience of the care giver. Part experimental film, part community engaged work and part visual poem SERVICE is set to be THE RABBLE’s most ambitious work to date.

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SERVICE is set on a revolve that slowly turns, a camera in the centre capturing the details of each act of care as it moves past. Each rotation of the stage is a new scene – a woman caring for her dying mother, a parent negotiating care of their young child, a cleaner leaving her own children to clean someone else’s house, a nurse showering an elderly patient. Epic worlds are revealed as we come to understand each act of care not as something banal, but as an operatic and heroic gesture.

 

Co-Created & Directed by Kate Davis & Emma Valente

Performed by Dana Miltins, Mary Helen Sassman. Full cast to be announced in 2027.

Produced by Sam Butterworth, Senior Producer at Performing Lines.

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body both through project funding and the Major Festivals Initiative (MFI), managed by the Creative Australia in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc.. SERVICE has been commissioned by Perth Festival and Sydney Festival and supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and by the Robert Salzer Foundation.

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