DRIVE
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOWINGS
12 & 13 MAY, 2017 AT 7PM WATERSIDE: 11 NILE STREET, PORT ADELAIDE In 2007, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak got into her car and drove for fourteen hours from Houston to Orlando, to confront her lover’s much younger lover, Colleen Shipman, in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport. Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and trench coat, she allegedly wore an adult nappy used in space so that she didn’t have to stop.
Inspired by this story, Drive is a contemporary exploration of lost, deviant women and carefully constructed avatars, set against long stretches of road and suffocating sky. Drawing on satire, choreography and contemporary modes of storytelling, you are invited out into the open road of freeways, highways, northern expressways, and the outer space between safety and success, and loneliness, unfettered desire and unwavering drive.
CREATIVE TEAM REBECCA MESTON, SARAH DUNN, ASHTON MALCOLM, JOSEPHINE WERE, ROZ HERVEY