The Waiting Room
WAITING ROOM is a site-specific, interactive, co-creation with the public. Set in public spaces and carefully constructed by an ensemble of master improvisers, WAITING ROOM is an irresistible invitation to connect.
Contemporary performance is increasingly concerned with the notion of liveness. WAITING ROOM takes this preoccupation one step further.
Taxi joyously prises open the experience of ‘waiting’, a period of forced inactivity where self-reflection and ‘people watching’ are heightened.
As the ensemble test social norms within the waiting spaces, the distinction between performer, audience and public becomes blurred. Unpredictable encounters between us become playful collective actions. WAITING ROOM is like a disco of humanity.
Winner: Brisbane Powerhouse Performance Award
WAITING ROOM has been presented at World Theatre Festival Brisbane Powerhouse, The Substation (Newport Victoria) and The Dog Theatre (Footscray Victoria).
“The Waiting Room is cutting-edge experimental theatre: a profound exploration of how we choreograph ourselves from chaos. What makes this piece radically beautiful is that it interrogates and embodies the random processes intrinsic to human behaviour. The Waiting Room is a living incarnation of fractal art.
★★★★”
“‘Sheer, playful joy’ ”
“Don’t expect to sit passively in a darkened theatre when you see The Waiting Room because you will incrementally become part of the performance without really noticing
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“‘a COMPLETE night at the theatre; surprising, eloquent, strange, funny, exhilarating, ridiculous, intimate, awkward, original.’”