eat chaos
By Kae Tempest
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
Bachelor of Creative Industries – Acting and Performance
‘Is anyone else awake? Will it ever be day again?’
Director’s notes
Bootcamp Royale 18 takes on the text of Kae Tempest.
Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos confronts us with the alienation of modern life. Between the normal daily grind and the onslaught of images, climate disasters and conflict, seven ordinary people struggle to find purpose and make connectionswith lovers, friends and themselves. How can we balance our needs as individuals with the demands of society? What is our responsibility to help solve the problems the world faces? How can we find meaning in Chaos?
Kae Tempest (born 1985) is one of Britain’s most exciting and vital poetic voices. Let Them Eat Chaos was released as an album in 2016.
It’s 4.18 am in a big city
Seven sleepless strangers
A looming storm
A moment of connection.
Credits
Lighting Design and operation
Geoff Squires
Sound & AV operation
Lisa O’Neill
Video documentation Touchwood Productions
Thanks to: TAFE Queensland Marketing, Management and Administration of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Digital Design, Downer, University of Canberra, Educational Partner Metro Arts, venue partner NIDA and Jackie French - Faculty director of CADD.
The students also wish to thank the teaching staff: Lisa O’Neill, Anatoly Frusin, Patrick Mitchell, Rosalind Williams, Brian Lucas, & Stephen Lance.
TAFE Queensland Acting would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we learn, teach, and perform, the Jagera and Turrbal people. We would like to pay our respects to all elders past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge that Aboriginal people have been performing on and caring for this land, now known as Brisbane, for tens of thousands of years.
Ensemble
Julius Assamba
Lukas Boonrat
Jai Bressan
Charlotte Campbell
Hannah Doncon
Natalie Ephraims
Angela Franke
Hannah Garrick
William Gough
Tobias Heynen
Archie Hrstich
Jonte McCowan
Finnick Millard
Jayce Moran
Summer Patrick
Alyssa Somerville
James Sproule
Chester Terry
Gabriella Wainwright
Pheobe Waller
Toby Williams
Duration
75 mins
Directed by Lisa O’Neill
Assisted by Anatoly Frusin