Concrete Playground

Thanks to the drastically reduced cost of airline travel, more and more of us are venturing into the world than ever before. In fact, 12.3 million people left Aussie shores last year (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics), which is a rather staggeringly large amount of Contiki travellers and gap year adventurers. In our travels we're prone to meeting new people, discovering many exotic and exciting cultures and places and, very often, discovering a little something about ourselves along the way. True Stories of Heroism and Adventure offers a thought-provoking insight into the particular travel exploits of three intrepid adventurers, exploring the reasons why we feel the need to visit the great 'abroad' to find ourselves, what risks we might undertake while there and what fascinating people we often come across.

Described as a 'degustation of the senses', the show features a collaborative mix of new music by Max Rapley (Old Men of Moss Mountain) and grab-you-by-the-eyeballs-and-don't-let-go multimedia visual design. Featuring the brilliant minds of Stephanie Iredale (The Genealogy of Victorian Birds), Julian Dibley-Hall (ATYP's Macbeth and Birds), Emily Morrison (ATYP's Bustown) and directed by Max Rapley (ATYP Young Artist Resident), True Stories will be a voyage without a life jacket, a plane trip without a safety briefing card and a bungee free-fall into the unknown of the spectacularly large amount of things that can happen to three wandering nomads. Catch the show on its brief Sydney sojourn before it heads down to feature at the Adelaide Fringe Festival.