Laika & Wills
“Outer space was as far as I could travel without ever going anywhere…”
It’s 1957 and a satellite carrying a little dog called Laika streaks across the Russian night. Is it science or propaganda? A memory or fate?
A story about love, destiny, and other convictions adrift in the cosmos.
Directed by Penny Harpham
20 – 27 September, 2013
The Loft, Lithuanian Club (Fringe Hub), Melbourne Fringe
Performed by Ian Michael, Leila Rodgers, and Michael Wahr
Set & Costume design / Owen Phillips
Composition & Sound Design / Raya Slavin
Lighting consultant / Kris Chainey
Photography / Misho Baranovic
“Uses an evocative, yet highly compressed language, a poetry of ellipses and contractions…aimed at a sort of constellation effect…. [The] artful direction is very fluid and the piece hurtles along at great pace.”
Credit: Misho Baranovic