Everything Flickers | A Promenade Theatre Show 2023

Everything Flickers is a performance created somewhere between wanting to change the world and wanting to make ends meet. It is a show trying to perform itself inside a theatre that lost its funding three years earlier, trying to tell a new story after ten years of relentless funding cuts and a government policy of cultural devaluation (helped in no small part by a global pandemic). Despite these obstacles, there is an extraordinary, perhaps foolhardy, ongoing- ness amongst communities of people still engaged in the radical project of envisioning better worlds.

Directed by Eliza Smith, Everything Flickers is the result of three years of development with WAAPA, pvi collective and PICA. On October 31st it will open on the same stage where its first iteration was held as a short work at the 2021 TILT season. The Blue Room Theatre has long been a haven for new, experimental and independent theatre. The expansive design of Everything Flickers invites audiences to see the beauty and resilience of the building, spilling into the corners and corridors often overlooked by theater-goers. It is a love letter to the spaces, places, people and stories which persist - flickering in the wake of cultural losses but never fading. In a cacophony of hope, failure and Tom Foolery, these artists ask one thing of their audience; think beautiful things, believe it was all like that.