ARC

ARC is a scalable and site-specific participatory theatre work designed around a menagerie of naturalistic critically endangered and extinct animals. Giving the audience small moments of highly intimate, transformational engagement with fragile, vulnerable life, the work will be led by children, who will enable the transition of wonder and preciousness onto participants.

This is at a time when we are hearing stronger and younger voices speaking up on matters that affect their world. The work is a confrontation with the reality of species extinction, and at the same time, a provocation of hope. These guides are messengers, reminding us of the resilience of nature, our power as individuals to both protect and preserve, and the inherent hope and creative genius of children, who are our future.

ARC is an Erth production commissioned by Sydney Opera House, as part of New Work Now, enabled by Jillian Segal AO & John Roth on behalf of Yarranabbe Foundation.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Create NSW.