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'When and how do many voices become one?
'What happens when they do?
'When does group become herd?
'And how do we tell communal stories for an endlessly heterogeneous group of people?
'HERD is a new work of queer music theatre.
'Springing off Lachlan Philpott’s 21-year-old play BISON, this new work expands outwards, opening up from its original metaphor for the gay male herd to consider herding and herdlike behaviours, kinship, discrimination and isolation in the wider LGBTQIA+ community.
'HERD lays claim to queer history, insisting it be visible and seeking to memorialise those lost to stigma, illness, violence and ignorance. An unapologetic provocation for our times, HERD sharply examines what it means to be part of ‘the queer community’.
'Are we all in it together?'
Source: Theatre Works.
Production Details
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Presented by Theatre Works and Wrecked All Productions at Theatre Works, 30 November - 10 December 2022.
Director: Alyson Campbell.
Dramaturgs: Alyson Campbell and Meta Cohen.
Lighting Designer: Bronwyn Pringle.
Cast: Ross Anderson-Doherty, Maude Davey, Ibrahim Halacoglu, and Willow Sizer.
