Wednesdays at the End of the World
Over the past year, theatre/music maker Max Barton has been gathering artists and audiences for a series of one-night-only apocalypse experiments — Wednesdays at the End Of the World. Each month, in a new location across Walyalup, four guest artists have responded to a different end-of-the-world scenario — AI takeovers, meteor strikes, judgement days and climate collapses — woven together into a live mixtape of music, theatre and philosophical reflection.
Playful, haunting and surprisingly hopeful, these nights have been about facing the final curtain with humour and honesty, then coming back to the present with fortitude and community spirit. Each event has asked: what do we hold onto when everything is falling away? What can we do together to hold off the inevitable?
For the Fremantle Biennale, Barton assembles a stellar lineup of musicians and storytellers for a one-off panpocalypse finale. Set by the water, it’s an invitation to sit together at the edge, contemplate the worst — and make it to the other side of the night stronger.
Performances by: Addison Axe, Alter Boy, Amber Fresh, Lucy Peach, Mood Punch, Mathas, , POW! NEGRO, Mararo Wangai.
Musicians: Paul Hines, Josten Myburgh, Elliot Smith.
Date and Time
WED 19 NOV, 7pm-8.45pm
and 9.15pm-11pm
Location
Sailing for oranges – first level
Image Credit
1. Photo by Matt Sav; 2. Photo: James Nilson; 3.Photo: Ai-LING TIUONG;
Max Barton is an award-winning British music and theatre artist based in Fremantle. He trained in both music and theatre, and has spent his career exploring ways to fuse artforms in order to engage listeners and audiences in compelling new ways. This thread has run through all his work, from tiny experimental interdisciplinary gigs through to large-scale musical work performed internationally for thousands of people a night. As a director, his world premiere production of Philip Ridley’s Karagula was nominated for eight Off-West End awards, winning three, and his production of The Listening Room has been performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre, across the UK in a national tour, and to prisoners and civilians across the UK through broadcasts from the Prison Radio Association and BBC radio 4.
As a writer he co-wrote Fuel Theatre’s show The Gretchen Question with Melly Still, and as one half of international company Second Body he has made several award-winning shows, including STYX, Concept for a Film and OOL.
Mathas – A ferociously talented visual artist, poet, producer and performer, Mathas has a long history of
illuminating stages. He was the first ever hip hop or electronic artist to win the WA Music Industry’s coveted Song of the Year Grand Prize with the song “Nourishment” and won consecutive WAMI Awards for Urban Act of the Year in 2012, 2013, 2014 and again in 2016.
Amber Fresh – Amber Fresh (aka Rabbit Island) is a natural born forest dweller on temporary loan to Freo. Her expansively ethereal music and soft, wise words bring moments of quiet stillness and surprise to an ever-turning world.
Lucy Peach – Lucy believes that embodying cycles of being supports a thriving world. Devoted to raising cuntciousness, she draws on her experience as a facilitator and an award-winning performing artist to restore balance and create reverence for our cyclical nature throughout the lifecycle.
Mararo Wangai – Mararo Wangai is a Kenyan-born writer, performer and media graduate, with a passionate interest in diverse forms of storytelling. His work strives to avoid simplistic narratives, assess society critically and tries to remain adaptive, organic and alive through its development, until the eventual encounter with an audience.
POW! NEGRO – POW! NEGRO aka Nelson Mondlane is the incredible creative mind behind such projects as Superego, Myriad Sun and a huge collection of visual arts excellence, mixing Grime, Dub, UKG club beats and his signature visual execution.
Sailing for Oranges
LEVEL 1
33 South terrace, fremantle
Duration: 2 hours
This event is held indoors and undercover.
This is a ticketed performance. Latecomers will not be admitted. Please arrive 10 minutes before the performance start time.
Food will not be available at this event. The bar will be open offering a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Parking: There is ample parking nearby at the Parry St Car Park or at Marine Terrace Car Park.
Public Transport: Sailing for Oranges is a 5-minute walk from the Fremantle Train Station, which is the final destination for the Fremantle Train Line, as well as several bus routes.
Please note this event is held on Level 1 at Sailing for Oranges and is only accessible via a set of stairs. No wheelchair access is available.
AUSLAN interpretation, Audio-Description and Assistive Listening will be on offer at this event. For more information visit our Access Program page.
