UFO
re:group performance collective
Director, Co-Creator, Puppet Designer and Video Designer
On the putting green at the edge of a regional town, a group of young people have been recruited for a highly confidential and, it turns out, highly dull job: to keep tabs on a grounded UFO. Sitting still and silent for weeks, the workers are about to call it quits when...
Using an innovative blend of science fiction tropes, live cinema and exquisitely detailed 1:8 miniatures, UFO is a funny, freaky encounter of the third kind from re:group’s Kirby Medway & Solomon Thomas that we promise you’ve never experienced before.
In a new live cinema experience, re:group reflects upon the joys, perils and pitfalls of nostalgia; outsourcing their own labour to technological replacements and grappling with goodbyes.
2020 Performed at The East Sydney Community and Arts Centre as part of BrandX The Flying Nun Season
2022 Performed at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre as part of MERRIGONGX
2023 Performed at Griffin Theatre Company
Images by Lucy Parakhina
Credits
Writer: Kirby Medway
Director / Video Designer: Solomon Thomas
Sound Designer: Tom Hogan
UFO Design: Dylan Tonkin
Puppet Design: Chris Howell, Solomon Thomas
Puppet Painting: Miri Badger
Set Designer: Angus Callander
Cast: Matt Abotomey, James Harding, Angela Johnston, Tahlee Leeson
Creative Consultants: Hannah Goodwin, Tessa Leong, Jenni Medway, Mark Rogers
Stage Management / Technical Assistance: Annika Bertinat, Jessica Henley-Sadgrove
Accessibility Services: Steve Wilson-Alexander
Creative Producer: Malcolm Whittaker
Administration: Intimate Spectacle
Developed with the support of Australia Council for the Arts, Brand X, Erth Visual & Physical Inc, HotHouse Theatre, Malcolm Robertson Foundation, MERRIGONGX, Griffin Theatre Company and Playking Foundation.