4th July – 7th July 2019
Aliwal Arts Centre

PLAYWRIGHTS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND EDITH PODESTA
DIRECTOR EDITH PODESTA
SET DESIGNER EDITH PODESTA
SOUND DESIGNER BANI HAYKAL
LIGHTING DEISGNER TAI ZI FENG
COSTUME COORDINATOR THERESA CHAN
PRODUCTION MANAGER MELISSA TEOH
STAGE MANAGER MIRABEL NEO
PRODUCER TONY TRICKETT

CHERYL CHARLI AS MALCOLM and ENSEMBLE

SYNOPSIS
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”
– The Empty Space, Peter Brook

An empty space. 19 actors. An audience.
Is that all it takes for a theatrical event to happen? What is theatre? And can it exist without an audience?

In the brand-new Studio @ WILD RICE, a hitherto empty space, Young & W!LD invites you to enter a world of theatrical ideas and possibilities. Through a constellation of words and images, the company unpacks how theatre is made and how it helps us make sense of the world in which we live.

Written by acclaimed theatre-maker Edith Podesta in collaboration with Young & W!LD, Anything Can Happen/Something Must Happen is playful, inventive and experimental – a thrilling experience that asks you to suspend your disbelief as you help us transform an empty space into a theatre.