Unbound
24th August - 4th September 2021
The Blue Room Theatre, Perth
Shakespeare reclaimed and unleashed.
Unbound is a bold new take on Shakespeare’s works where female characters finally take centre stage.
Meet Ophelia, Emilia and Volumnia, three sisters fighting to forge their destinies in a world where power is everything. A second Act finds the women transported into a technicolour dreamscape where inner fears and desires are unleashed in a whirl of movement, dance and sound.
Unbound is a story for our age: a bewitching collision of classical text and dynamic contemporary forms that is sure to challenge everything you think you know about the Bard. This theatrical intervention rejects sexist stereotypes, casting the feminine and masculine in both flawed and moral lights while offering various possibilities of gender expression to a modern audience.
Written and Devised: Cohan, Hannah Evelyn, Gala Shevtsov, Hock Edwards, Kynan Hughes and Ryan Marano
Outside Eye: Kat Shaw
Sound Design: BEXX
Costume Design: Kynan Hughes
Set design: Cohan
Lighting Design: Hannah Portwine
Dressmaker: Barbara Hughes
Props: Cohan, Hannah Portwine
Producers: Amber Kitney, Cohan, Gala Shevtsov
Stage Manager: Hannah Portwine
Assistant Stage Manager: Mickey Moroz
Production Stills: Kaifu Deng
Archival Footage: Edwin Sitt
Promotional video: Edwin Sitt
Produced by: Blank Space Productions and The Blue Room Theatre
Supported by: Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural industries, Midland Junction Arts Centre
With thanks to: The Last Great Hunt
