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A site-specific audio work about staying up late in unexpected places

Centering around intimate conversations that take place late at night, Streetlights and Long Nights is a new immersive audio work to be experienced through headphones provided whilst seated in stationary cars near the river.

Audiences are invited to reminisce, relishing in the feeling of staying up and gossiping in dark, slightly unexpected places. Maybe you’re in a car, driving home from a spur of the moment decision to get 2am pancakes, or on the beach at midnight, or perhaps you’re squeezed into swings aimed at eight-year-olds, loitering on abandoned playground equipment as you confess all of your most intimate, random thoughts.

It’s the feeling of being alone, with a friend or a lover, amongst the silence as the whole world around you sleeps. Presented by Vitalstatistix under the lights of the starry Port Adelaide night sky, this will be a unique and cosy experience leaving you feeling warm, fuzzy, and full.

 

Creative Team

 

Isobel Marmion

Sarah Peters

Sascha Budimski

 

    

Program Partners

ISOBEL MARMION: LEAD ARTIST AND WRITER

Isobel Marmion (she/her) is a writer, performer, storyteller and arts worker based on Kaurna Country. Her practice includes traditional theatre, comedy, and experimental cabaret. Her work frequently focuses on the intersection between science and communal experiences, and she often uses humour to explore class disparities, loneliness and mental illness. Her work has included Bonk: A Romantic Comedy About Science and Sex (2013), People Piss in Here (2015), It's My Funeral and I'll Throw Glitter if I Want To (2016), and Disability Media Australia's sketch comedy What's Wrong With U? (2016) She has previously performed stand up, and experimental cabaret. Isobel is the executive producer of Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and has worked as artistic director of Festival of Voices (2023-2024), co-director of the National Young Writers Festival (2020-2021), and for the BBC’s Contains Strong Language.

SARAH PETERS: DRAMATURG AND FEATURED WRITER

Dr Sarah Peters (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Flinders University and book reviews editor for Australasian Drama Studies. Sarah is a playwright and theatre practitioner specialising in verbatim theatre and community-engaged theatre making, most recently with youth arts organisations in South Australia such as D’faces of Youth Arts (2019), Expressway Arts (Carclew) (2019-2021) and Prospect Theatre for Young People (2022). She was a commissioned writer on STCSA’s and ActNow’s 2020 Ruby Award winning project Decameron 2.0, and has been commissioned by Theatre Republic to contribute to their 2023 Future:Present project. Her verbatim plays (published online with Australian Plays Transform) engage with communities to tell the shared stories of experience, such as women living with Alopecia in bald heads & blue stars (2014), young people navigating mental health and wellbeing in twelve2twentyfive (2015) growing up in rural communities in Eternity (2017) and pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago looking for belonging in Blister (2019). Her research investigates collaborative theatre making processes within an ethic of care, dramaturgies of theatre based on lived experiences, and the socio-political and inter-personal outcomes of arts engagement for community participants. Sarah's most recent work is An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Hugs.

SASCHA BUDIMSKI: SOUND DESIGNER

Sascha Budimski (he/him) is an Adelaide based sound artist whose style of music generally involves mashing electronic beats, glitched acoustic instruments and textured ambiences. He developed his interest in sound art and electronic music whilst studying dance at the Adelaide College of the Arts, and he is heavily drawn to designing and creating sound for theatre, dance and art installations. Sascha is a fully qualified sound engineer, studying at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Adelaide where he received a Diploma of Music Industry and developed a love for recording and mixing bands and musicians. Works featuring his sound design have received various awards and nominations, including several Australian Dance Awards, South Australian Small Screen Awards and a nomination in the 2018 Performing Arts WA Awards for his composition for Love/Less by Kynan Hughes. In recent years, some of Sascha’s work has received international attention with shows featuring his sound being presented in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden.

WHEN

Tue 15 – Fri 18 July 2025:
6pm & 8pm
Sat 19 & Sun 20 July 2025:
5:30pm & 7:30pm
Suggested arrival time:
30 minutes prior to the show

WHERE

Vitalstatistix

Waterside Workers Hall, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide

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TICKETS

General Admission
$25.00
Group of 4+
$18.00

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair Access
Visual Content - 50% or Under

Access toilets available. 

EVENT NOTES

Duration

1 hour

Warnings

Patrons will be seated in stationary vehicles to experience this work and will be required to wear bluetooth headphones.

This work is not suitable for people under 14 years of age.

Details

Latecomers will not be admitted.

Cloak room, snacks and drinks available for purchase. 

Getting here > https://vitalstatistix.com.au/waterside/getting-here/

Bars will be open 1 hour prior to and after each performance. 

Performances will take place rain, hail or shine.

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