written by Aubrey Wang | directed by Ziggy Tow
24-29 September
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Actors Pulse Playhouse
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24-29 September | Actors Pulse Playhouse |
DARK HUMOR MEETS EMOTIONAL DEPTH
A Japanese Noh-inspired space odyssey about immigration and long-distance relationships. Booba moves to the Moon for an internship. Will her love for Homie survive?
Meet the cast
Jack Mcevoy playing TANYA
Kyrah Brock-Fenton playing BOOBA
Sosh Pouhila afa playing HOMELESS CRATERDASH DRIVER
Agustin Lamas playing HOMIE
Hamish Bell playing DEXON
(Click on the images to learn more about our cast)
Michael Brien playing ERASMUS
Perfect Marble. 11 mins. dir. Ziggy Tow and Alex Spear. Finalist, Inner West Film Festival 2024.
Statement from the
Director
- Ziggy Tow
Set in the future, between Mars and the Moon, Booba is mainly focused on the theme of modern love — something that feels in flux at the moment. A time where tradition, stability, and the power that men have are lessening each day (in Sydney, at least).
The two main characters, Booba and Homie, are in a situationship tested by the hope of a career on the Moon offered to Booba. She takes it after hearing Homie’s reluctant words, in the hope of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It’s a chance at getting out of Mars (Australia). Even the possibility of actually living, of the kind of life she was meant for.
Like the Homeless guy she encounters later on, she must have also felt that she is from a place where you are “born dead”, where there is little room for upward mobility and growth.
This is followed by immigration hell, attempts not to be trafficked, and a bureaucratic nightmare. The Moon, a metaphor for New York, is far from the ritzy paradise that it has been sold to Booba as. This play explores the darker underbelly of neoliberal hellscapes.
For me, I want to play with the form of a play, to explore the territories it could be taken to, while maintaining a uniform vibe or style.
My role as a director is not to force my own individual vision onto the script but to bring out the unique styles of each person working on the production — to merge the vision and styles of the writer, actors, and set designers, as well as some from myself, of course — while maintaining my function as the lube of the production.
Then relate each individual’s style and vision to the broader Sydney ecosystem, to continue to grow and contribute to Sydney culture and style.
Working on this project has taught me about the wide variety of people in this city, and got me thinking about how they all fit together, creating something new and fresh.
Booba will be a merge and melt of many different and diverse minds — creating something hopefully entertaining, intelligent, and unique.
Diaan Vitnell
Poet & Yuridiana
Diaan Vitnell is a sculptor, performer, and persona artist practising under the moniker Dumbitchdiaan. A graduate of the National Art School (BFA Sculpture), Diaan’s works have been exhibited at the NAS Grad Show and across Sydney’s experimental spaces. They performed in Jake Starr’s
A Weak & Panicked Animal
(Syrup Contemporary, 2024)
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