This production was the Australian premiere of the play Your Name Means Dream by multi-award winning Latin American playwright and screenwriter Jose Rivera. The 2 person play has 2 characters – an elderly New York woman and her much younger AI humanoid robot helper. The play deals with themes of aging, loneliness, female friendship, and AI. The play ran for 19 performances, in a sold out season, adn was nominated for 3 Greenroom Awards (this description is written before the announcement of winners).
NTRO Output Type
- Live Performance of Creative Work
NTRO Output Category
- Live Performance of Creative Work : Play
Place
Melbourne, AustraliaVenue
Red Stitch Actors TheatreNTRO Publisher
Red Stitch Actors Theatre - producerStart Date
2026-10-23End Date
2024-11-24Medium
PerformingResearch Statement
This production was the Australian premiere of the play Your Name Means Dream by multi-award winning Latin American playwright and screenwriter Jose Rivera. The 2 person play has 2 characters – an elderly New York woman and her much younger AI humanoid robot helper. deals with themes of aging, loneliness, female friendship, and AI. The project was an experiment in understanding the dynamic between intergenerational actors and how my directing techniques, emphasising warmth and embodied empathetic relational interactions, might serve a play with these particular themes. The actors, one almost 60 years old, playing a 70 year old woman, and an actor in her mid-20’s, were new to one another at the beginning of the process and I worked consciously to discover how we might realise the play’s themes using an embodied and intuitive process that forms the backbone of an "embodied directing" process that I am using pedagogically that looks at "reading" the relational aesthetics of a rehearsal room.Size or Duration of Work
2 hours per performance for 19 performances
