Campaign image for the 2022 Season of 'Monsters'. In photo: Alison Whyte. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Monsters
By Emme Hoy, Matthew Lutton & Stephanie Lake
24 November 2022 – 11 February 2023 Merlyn Theatre
Malthouse Theatre,
New Writing Theatre Contemporary Dance
A sinkhole has opened in the ground. This is the story of a woman who climbs into it. And what she finds.
In a thrilling fever dream told by Alison Whyte (Cloudstreet, The Bloody Chamber), a woman and her guide journey into a chasm that has opened in a city and stolen her sister. As they plunge into the subterranean depths; and on the knife’s edge of panic, the woman refuses the urgent pleas of her guide to turn back—how can she when she knows her sister is so close?
But they are not alone.
In this adrenaline filled collaboration with Stephanie Lake Company, Alison Whyte is joined on stage by dancers Samantha Hines, Josie Weise, and Kimball Wong, who conjure the hallucinations and horrors that echo in the mind.
"An uncomfortable, thrilling glimpse into the darkness."
— ArtsHub
"The choreography is stunning and the execution by the three dancers...is exceptional."
— Stage Whispers
"Applause lasted long for [Alison Whyte] and the three dancers."
— Limelight
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Acknowledgements
A Malthouse Theatre production, in association with Stephanie Lake Company.