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Mysteries Adaptation of the 1892 novel by Knut Hamsen. This was the last play performed at the original Canberra Playhouse before it was demolished and rebuilt.
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The Oracle: Journey of the Avatar Original group devised work, featuring use of the Weston Park Maze. "With The Oracle, the parallel lines of the journey were those of audience and Avatar (Godhead), whose path of enlightenment couched the show in optimistic, hopeful tones (though again using such icons as effigies, naked bodies, and terrorism) and delivered both spectators and object unto a heavenly vision of Creation." - Reviewer's opinion
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25 Years of Performance Art in Australia Splinters performed at the opening night of this event and contributed material to the exhibition, curated by the late Nic Waterlow.
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The Fertile Millenia Commissioned performance for the National Folk Festival
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Dreams for a Better World: The Legend of Qu Yuan Commissioned opening parade and performance by the National Dragon Boat Festival. The performance was based on the legend of beloved Chinese poet Qu Yuan (340–278 BC)
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Thirst... is a Place, Water to Burn Original work with text by Christopher Barnett and directed by Nicolas Lathouris
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ICON Splinters played a major role in this spectacle work for the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, directed by Roger Rind.
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Flowers of Gold / Bezerkii Carnival Original season by Splinters at the now demolished bus shed adjacent to the Old Bus Depot Markets. The cast was over 80 people includng a number of artists groups from interstate.
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Stray Toasters Staged "radio play" adapted from the graphic novel of the same title by Bill Sienkiewicz. "On a stage of a cartoon sparsity, a nightmarish post-apocalyptical mystery/thriller unfolded. A string of classic one-liners, running jokes and badinage brought to mind a demented Goons show, as an occasionally difficult text at times descended into a babble. A subversive video-montage—a closed-circuit, time-warp Mobius-loop that beamed from the scattered television sets that littered the stage—provided a visual metaphor for the tale of psychic violence, domination and suffering so evocative of a surrealistic Cluedo.' - Reviewer's opinion
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Roading Home To Aunty Canberra season developing material used in Winter of the Rutting Moon. No images or video of this production have been identified. The season is notable for the review in The Canberra Times suggesting a perceived masculine focus of Splinters and letter of objection by Pauline Cady, who co-wrote and performed.
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Mutter Courage Commissioned performance for the Australian National Playwrights Conference. Loosely based on Brecht. Mutter Courage, a huge-headed puppet dressed in delicate pinks and blues, went through it all — from giving birth and separation from her child to the violence of war and its aftermath. The production reached Wagnerian proportions in a brief and intense 35 minutes.
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Cathedral of Flesh Season at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. "...environmental theatre, anti-theatre, performance art, puppets, acrobatics and fire eating. The climax depicting a cyber-junk war with a dead body being torched is galvanising theatre. The show magnificently exploits the atmosphere of the old jail and the huge cast displays powerhouse energy and noise."
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In Tristitisa Hilaris in Hilaritate Tristis "The show is a wonderful, bawdy romp, a rollicking commedia dell'arte entertainment complete with wandering minstrel... This is the first time I have seen Splinters perform in a conventional theatre and their migration from the fringe has not made their productions any less exhilarating." - Reviewer's opinion
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Whirled on a Fatal Floor Presented in the Yarralumla Brickworks, which became Splinters workshop for many years, as part of the Canberra Fringe Festival. Audiences were separated into three equal-sized groups. These groups, provided each in turn with ‘guides’, ‘burdens’, or ‘champagne’, was subjected to varying perspectives on the show’s events and circumstances.
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Winter of the Rutting Moon Season of theatre by Splinters at The Performance Space, Sydney in 1991. It can be considered Splinters' breakout work, the success of which underpinned securing funding from the Australia Council.
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Massive Love of Risk Season of theatre at Northside Community Hall Ainslie ACT. "Splinters have made Northside Community Center into a hollowed-out cavern littered with all kinds of material residue. The action shifts unpredictably around the cluttered space."