PEACEMONGERS

Peacemongers (2024)

The People present Peacemongers: an ambitious new work about the polarity of our current age, how we got here, and how we get out. The work melds post-dramatic theatre with cabaret and dinner theatre to create a joyous night of connection with other people.

The People make theatre that is formally experimental, politically current, and personal. An amorphous consortium headed by Morgan Rose and Katrina Cornwell, The People work with whoever is interested, and whoever has something to say. Peacemongers has been created through years long collaboration with artists Sonya Suares, Samuel Gaskin, Kate Hood, İbrahim Halaçoğlu, and Zachary Pidd. Tonight they invite you to dinner and a show. The show is about bigotry and polarisation. They’ve made it a musical to lighten the mood. Dinner will be hearty and simple, served by our good friends at Moon Rabbit. Peacemongers is a real-life attempt at utopia. It's documentary theatre at its most absurd, and an act of rebellious and delusional hope. Witness a group of ordinary people who set out to write a play about an ideal society, one in which bigotry doesn’t exist. What started as an exercise in rehearsal, spirals into a years-long endeavour. Let us welcome you to dinner and the final stage of this quixotic undertaking, in which this unconventional company of artists attempts to answer the question: What do we do with people we disagree with?

Producer: Flick
Co-created by: Samuel Gaskin, Kate Hood, İbrahim Halaçoğlu, Sonya Suares, Zachary Pidd, Katrina Cornwell and Morgan Rose
Director: Katrina Cornwell
Writer: Morgan Rose
Performers: Samuel Gaskin, Kate Hood, İbrahim Halaçoğlu, Sonya Suares, Mia Boonan and Zachary Pidd
Set and Costume Design: Nathan Burmeister
Sound and AV Design: Justin Gardam
Lighting Design: Rachel Lee
Composition: Zachary Pidd with İbrahim Halaçoğlu, Sonya Suares and Samuel Gaskin
Production Stage Manager: Harry Dowling

Presented by Darebin Speakeasy, catered by Moon Rabbit.

Peacemongers premiered at Darebin Arts Centre from April-May 2024 to sold out audiences.