Sydney pals - we’re heading your way this week.
Next Wave Festival 2020 artists re:group performance collective are finally bringing Coil to PACT Thu 10 - Sat 12 Feb.
Streaming killed the video store.
An elegy to the closure of the local video shop, Coil is about nostalgia, loneliness, friendship and viability. For many, the local video store was a communal space. It represented possibility, adventure, camaraderie, risk. Browsing the wide range of online streaming sites has replaced wandering the aisles of our local video shops, but what does the loss of these physical librarial spaces do to us? How does it affect our friendships, our culture, our engagement with the town at large?
On the same stage that re:group performed their first work nearly a decade ago with an ensemble cast of ten, a single performer returns. re:group have cut cast members to remain viable. Can he keep the re:group ritual alive?
The screen says there’s connection, the theatre says he’s alone.
Thu 10 - Sat 12 Feb
PACT Sydney
Image: Rosie Hastie