{"id":429,"date":"2012-11-15T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:12:12","slug":"memory-room-if-there-was-a-colour-darker-than-black-id-wear-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Memory Room: If there was a colour darker than Black I&#8217;d Wear it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If there was a colour darker than black I&#039;d wear it 2 mins\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/686586382?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This regional theatre project, produced by the Country Arts SA Local Stages Initiative, has been one of my favourite projects of all time. Extremely challenging (subject matter and technically), its a progressive theatre project that takes the audience on a journey through the mental landscape of a Ado, troubled young man and his community dealing with their loss of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Each site featured layers of live performance, visual art and installation, interactive projection and animation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show was presented three times over a five year period, in Goolwa, Mount Gambier and Bathurst.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The site &#8220;Memory Room&#8221; was a beautiful and mesmerising immersive space, which layers the haunting glitch tracks of DJ Tr!p combined with footage that I worked on with the actors and local film makers in each place.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the audience pass through the room they experience Ado&#8217;s final moments, lingering thoughts of love and despair communicated through visual vignettes of family gatherings and fights, as they continue on through remnants of a wake for Ado.  It was always very moving presenting this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a collaborative project it was daunting with many collaborating directors and &#8216;cooks&#8217; but we worked it out with a lot of trust and calm good communication. On reflection, it was one of the best regional performance projects I have worked on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This regional theatre project, produced by the Country Arts SA Local Stages Initiative, has been one of my favourite projects of all time. Extremely challenging (subject matter and technically), its a progressive theatre project that takes the audience on a journey through the mental landscape of a Ado, troubled young man and his community dealing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/?p=429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memory Room: If there was a colour darker than Black I&#8217;d Wear it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindidrennan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}