modmove » The Neighbourhood https://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Fri, 08 May 2026 16:38:00 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 The Neighbourhood Theatre Review https://modmove.com/reviews/the-neighbourhood-theatre-review/ https://modmove.com/reviews/the-neighbourhood-theatre-review/#comments Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:37:35 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=10392 Embracing a rainbow of multicultural identities and discarding the tyranny of xenophobia, The Neighbourhood shines a light on the horrific and hopeful. Told through the life experiences of seven individuals, their stories are both richly unique and unfortunately all too common.

Different avenues to the same hopeful destination. Those paths are lined with obstacles of omission and the hurdles of acceptance. Sometimes it’s just an uncaring aside that cuts the deepest. Embracing a world view outside the easily known is often a step too far. Rattle the cage of easy avoidance.

Each remembrance carries the weight of deeply felt emotion, sometimes through appalling apathy, sometimes amid armed conflagration or even the deep desire for anonymity. After giving our hearts and minds a thorough blast of life force, it ends with well wishes for serenity and composure through the simple joys available in this land we all call home.

 

 

The Neighbourhood currently playing at La Boite, Brisbane until the 29 February 2020 – head to thier website for more information and tickets www.laboite.com.au
Rob Hudson

CAST
Amer Thabet, Naavi Karan, Matt Hsu, Aurora Liddle-Christie, Anisa Nandaula, Cieavash Arean, Nima Doostkhah

CREATIVES
Co-creator: Todd MacDonald
Co-creator: Aleea Monsour
Co-creator: Ari Palani
Assistant Creative: Ngoc Phan
Set & Costume Designer: Adam Gardnir
Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes
Sound Designer & Composer: Brady Watkins
Stage Manager: Pip Loth
Assistant Stage Manager: Jaime Ng
www.laboite.com.au

]]> https://modmove.com/reviews/the-neighbourhood-theatre-review/feed/ 0 The Neighbourhood is coming to La Boite this February https://modmove.com/theatre/the-neighbourhood-is-coming-to-la-boite-this-february/ https://modmove.com/theatre/the-neighbourhood-is-coming-to-la-boite-this-february/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:18:43 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=10119 A companion piece to La Boite’s critically acclaimed 2017 offering The Village, The Neighbourhood is an intimate story-telling experience that transports audiences across countries, borders, and oceans in search of a home; all from within the walls of the Roundhouse Theatre.

The revelatory work tracks seven individual, real-life journeys from the experience of fleeing homelands, to seeking refuge and creating, fostering and discovering a new community (or neighbourhood) in Australia.

 

 

The Neighbourhood promises an evening of honest, authentic, and deeply moving theatre, imbued with a sense of hope, power and recognition.

Written and co-created by the story-tellers themselves, The Neighbourhood traverses a range of story-telling forms to examine the concept of home and the vital importance of belonging. The Neighbourhood is co-created with Todd MacDonald, Aleea Monsour and Ari Palani with an ensemble of seven local story-tellers.

The Neighbourhood
La Boite, Brisbane
8-29 February 2020
www.laboite.com.au

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