My Radio Heart

The Urban Theatre Projects (UPT) and the experimental band Tralala Blip deliver My Radio Heart – an innovative theatre piece that brings together audio-visual effects and live sound performance to draw the audience into a mythical game-like mirror of our own 21st century world.

UPT director Rosie Dennis steps outside the familiarity of her Western Sydney roots and reaches out to the often neglected art sphere of regional Australia.

The production has had community involvement since its conception in the work’s Lismore launching pad. They have engaged with Wilson Park School students who have contributed several compositions.

Dennis speaks of the need to go outside of the arts industry and encourages the collaborative opportunities this creates, especially in the local community with people living with disability. The process took its starting point from the mixed-ability electronic band Tralala Blip and their interest in exploring the challenges of finding love within the routine of modern life.

From this subject matter, along with the new media possibilities sparked by the band, Dennis and her theatre team began devising the narrative.

The production is cutting edge, yet subtle and gentle in its transportive potential. Dennis says, “I think it is the kind of show that will stay with people as they will think back to the images.” (CK)

Apr 9-12, Bankstown Arts Centre, 5 Olympic Pde, Bankstown, $25, urbantheatre.com.au

BY CATHERINE KNIGHT