Concrete Playground

It's closing time at the pub and a party mix of bright young things carouse on to their next destination. In the time-traveling tradition of Proust, these sixteen Gen Ys will each tell their story to the audience over the scant hundred metres it takes to reach the next street corner. All are fuelled by their unique desires and surface concerns, and yet there is something that connects these people together beyond friendship.

Their words come out from the same mouth.

Tim Spencer, Sydney-based writer and performer, has mined the hopes, indulgences and miseries of Australia's emerging adults and combined his discoveries into a seductive piece of theatre. Drawing on both his skill with words and a love of vaudeville, Spencer performs with an energy that is as unrelenting as it is fragile, wooing his audience into a world of fairy lights and tender tragedies.

Read an interview with Tim Spencer on our blog.

Image by Alex Vaughan

By Jimmy Dalton