New Babylon / by Stephen Carleton
- Bib ID:
- 10025949
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carleton, Stephen, 1968-
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [South Brisbane BC, Qld.] : Playlab Theatre, April 2024
- 1 online resource (96 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 789KB
- ISBN:
- 9781761610493
- Summary:
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Stephen Carleton's New Babylon is a macabre comedy exploring themes of decadence, waste and the logical end points of compulsive consumption under late capitalism. Synopsis: The companion piece to the 2018 hit The Turquoise Elephant, New Babylon is the second in a proposed trilogy of absurdist works dealing with the climate change crisis. Aunt Olympia is on board a "dark tourism" ship, bound for the great plastic vortexes of the Pacific Ocean. She thinks she is touring the world's great sites of environmental degradation as a privileged voyeur, but when our audience join her to watch her voyage - as lucky lottery winners aboard the ship - things take a bizarre turn. As the ship ploughs through the great Pacific trash gyres on its journey to a mysterious outpost - New Babylon - the occupants begin behaving more strangely, and our own presence aboard the ship, has us questioning our complicity in the dire circumstances we all find ourselves in.
- Notes:
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- Credits: General editor: Alexander Bayliss ; Copy editor: Danielle Carter ; Cover design: Sean Dowling.
- First Published May 2021 by Playlab Theatre.
- New Babylon is a Knock-em-Down and Brown's Mart production premiering at Browns Mart Theatre, on June 8, 2021.
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- Electronic books
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- Copyright:
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- Literary, dramatic or musical work
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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