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Highway Rock & Roll Disaster Higher Ground Until 12 March A melange of music memory and music video, 'Highway Rock & Roll Disaster' uses songs from the 80's and 90's to frame the action - mime, dance and song - in a complex array of images, sound and movement that takes the audience on an idiosyncratic ride through pop culture. It is the new work from local edgy theatre collective Border Project who wowed audience and critics alike last Fringe with the marvellous 'Please Go Hop'. The opening night was full of fans and friends, with performers garnering cheers and laughs as they entered the performance space. At various times the space housed drum kits and a band, keyboards and computer music and the cast, dressed in the finest nu-retro trash clobber, playing music both literally and figuratively, creating wild mnemonic vignettes inspired by each song. An absurdist multi media musical or live action MTV, Border Project - under the direction of Sam Haren - again play hard with what theatre is in 'Highway Rock & Roll Disaster'. Cast members commenced development with a memory and a song, and while the production could be a case of sensation over substance, is that not what pop culture offers us? It is until songs become (as they invariable and delightfully do) important reference points for our lives. Sonic Youth's Death Valley 69, a mesh of static and electric guitars, repetitive bucket dancing with bears and an ET doll was my favourite, but there is something to enjoy for anyone who has ever gone to bed four hours late because of Rage.  |
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