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| Audience members become the cast in The Confidence Man. Photo: Ponch Hawkes |
The Confidence Man
is a sinister thriller awash with secrets, old wounds, old friends, stolen
cash, deceit, power, drug use, coarse language, manipulation and violence. Six
audience members are enlisted into the cast. Wearing oversized masks fitted
with an audio facility, cast members bring the drama to life as directed. They are
the cast. No other actors perform.
Seated in a single row, around three sides of a large
rectangular performance space, the audience capacity is restricted to thirty.
Each dons headphones and receives the story by observing the action and
listening to pre-recorded dialogue. Alongside the dialogue we are made privy to
the innermost thoughts of one character, together with their directed action. Continue reading
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