IN DEVELOPMENT
acting life BY RANTERS THEATRE
Ranters Theatre will engage well known Melbourne performer, Natasha Herbert, to create ACTING LIFE, a solo performance that examines the thin line separating the act of performing from the act of living. ‘Counting rehearsals, I have put on a coat approximately 5,000 times, cried over 3,500 times, much more than in my ‘real’ life, sat on a chair almost 6,000 times, lost a child at least 10 times, danced over 400 times, and died 7 times…” Taking a specific time frame, the rehearsal period of an un-named theatre work, ACTING LIFE investigates the process of ‘creating a role’ and the intersection with real-life experiences over the same time frame. The work dissects the ‘act of performing’ asking questions around authenticity and the multiplicity of everyday life. ABOUT THE ARTISTS - RANTERS THEATRE Ranters Theatre is a group of Melbourne based artists that have been making work together since 1994. The work has been presented in theatres, inside homes, in gardens and on the streets. Each project is made as a response to the social and psychological contexts of contemporary living and acts as a kind of reframing of the everyday experience. Their work plays with the habitual languages of performance and is centred around the singular question of ‘how we perform ourselves.’ 92 | THEATRE WORKS season 2022
