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ILARUN: The Cutting Comb
SHOW DETAILS:
5 – 15 December 2024
preview: Thursday 5 December
opening night: Friday 6 December
duration: 90 minutes
times:
Tuesday to Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
ticket price: $35 – $49
bookings: 03 9662 9966
warnings: Adult content, sex and sexual references, coarse language, use of slurs, depictions of death, violence and sexual assault
Down in dark dank cellars, Black women are milked commodities. But when a mystical encounter unhinges a docile slave, divine danger rises.
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On a plantation in the West Indies,
the real harvest is a viscous fluid, salty …. slightly sweet.
Imported ebony bodies made to grind, collude against their will
Black Kings reduced to watching their Queens milked
Masa sits and licks and licks and licks
This succulent carnal delight is entrepreneurial pride
and a rise for his …
There’s one whose juice tantalises the most
But an encounter with something mundane,
from the land carrying her real name
awakens a cosmic rebel ghost
Beat, Beat, Beat drums, suns, daughters eyes wide
Warrior memory rising
Is it enough to turn the colossal colonial tide?
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An original story inspired by the life of Jamaica’s Nanny of the Maroons
Image by Davide Balduzzi
Supported by City of Melbourne Annual Arts Grants and Creative Australia
CAST
Juicy: Amarantha Robinson
Jabari: Alpha Kargbo
Masa: David John Watton
Assistant: William Hall
Hetty: Rufaro Zimbudzi
CREATIVES
Writer and Producer: Amarantha Robinson
Director: Effie Nkrumah
Dramaturg: Morgan Rose
Consulting Producer: Linda Catalano
Production Manager: Flick
Stage Manager: Jade Hibbert
Set and Costume Designer: Harry Gill
Associate Set and Costume Designer: Rachel Nankin
Headpiece Designer: Sandra Githinji
Lighting Designer: John Collopy
Sound Designer: Jack Burmeister
Choreographer: Kwame Tosuma
Fight Scene Coordinator: Joshua Bell
Intimacy Coordinator: Lucy Payne
Photographer: Andreyna Sanchez
Marketing Consultant: Zare Demus
Social Media Ads Consultant: Naa-Lamle Wellington
Ticket Prices:
Preview: $35
Full: $49
Concession: $39
Group 6+: $39
Concessions:
Pensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members
Ticket sales are subject to a booking fee of $2.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express