Goldfish
Goldfish is a ground-breaking collaboration between Terrapin and Japan’s Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, with performers from Australia and Japan.
- Goldfish explores the role of the theatre in times of increasing disaster
- This performance features a unique low-carbon international touring model where we travel without a set: instead all set items are locally sourced in touring locations, focusing on locally relevant disaster recovery items, and donated to partners at the end of the season.
- Traveling without a set significantly reduces the carbon impact of touring work and supports service delivery organisations.
Goldfish
A solo puppeteer is performing a fable for children. We imagine a flourishing society that does away with time, ignoring night and day, leading to a great flood.
Suddenly, in the theatre, a team of disaster recovery workers burst in to transform it into an evacuation centre. Among these competing narratives we begin to ask, what role should humanity, and the theatre, play in times of increasing disaster?
Through constantly shifting imagery, we experience stunning shifts of scale in this performance from the miniature to the gigantic, with the story moving between the abstract and the literal. Familiar items come alive to tell the tale: a blue tarpaulin becomes a surging ocean; pallets of tinned food become battlements; bags of rice become sandbags to hold back a flood.
This work is ideal for children aged 8+ and their families.
