Faker

Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Faker

By Gideon Obarzanek

23 March 2011 – 02 April 2011 Beckett Theatre

Malthouse Theatre, Chunky Move Dance Company,

Dance Co-Production

Faker arose out of a two week workshop Obarzanek undertook with a young dancer. Despite best intentions, not everything went to plan. Success, experience and earned respect count for little when pitted against the doubts that haunt an empty studio. In Faker we find Obarzanek at his computer reading an email he received from the young dancer letting him know, in the most brutally honest language, her thoughts on the time spent working with him. Frank and darkly humorous, Faker exposes the expectations and disappointments, the creative aspirations and personal doubts of dance and theatre making.

 

"DEEPLY INVOLVING ... FAKER DOES IT EXPERTLY AND MEMORABLY."

— The Australian

 

"AN INTRIGUING RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS PARALLELS IN OTHER ARTS AND BEYOND."

— Sydney Morning Herald

Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr
Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr
Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr
of

Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for "Faker". Gideon Obarzanek. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Cast

Gideon Obarzanek

Gideon Obarzanek

Performer, Lighting Designer, Creator

Creatives

Tom Wright

Tom Wright

Consultant

Lucy Guerin

Lucy Guerin

Consultant

Antony Hamilton

Antony Hamilton

Consultant

Chris Mercer

Chris Mercer

Lighting Designer

Rachael Azzopardi

Executive Producer

Aimee Smith

Consultant

Josh Sherrin

Josh Sherrin

Stage Manager

Acknowledgements

A Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move production.