Half Straddle

Is This A Room

By Tina Satter

‘A ripped-from-the-headlines … taut and pulse-prickling docudrama.’

Variety

Australian Exclusive / Theatre / USA
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A real-life thriller plays out word for word, as it happened. See the official FBI transcript of the day Reality Winner was surprised at her home, interrogated in her small back room and charged with leaking proof of Russian interference in the 2016 US election brought to life on stage. 

Dates & Times

14 – 17 Feb
Fri 8pm
Sat 2 & 8pm
Sun 1 & 6pm
Mon 7pm

Duration 70mins

Access

Sat 15 Feb 2pm | AUSLAN

Tickets

$69

Festival Club membership prices available.

Location

Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, 174/176 William St, Perth WA 6000

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Notes

  • Contains haze effects.
  • There is construction in Perth Cultural Centre. The best way to access the State Theatre Centre from the Perth Train Station is via Yagan Square, if you are coming from the State Library direction go via the James St cul-de-sac and the left onto William St. View the map.

A real-life thriller plays out word for word, as it happened. See the official FBI transcript of the day Reality Winner was surprised at her home, interrogated in her small back room and charged with leaking proof of Russian interference in the 2016 US election brought to life on stage. 

'You’d need to ask Kafka to come up with a character and a setting this brilliantly perverse.'
New York Magazine

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Creator & Director Tina Satter
Composer Sanae Yamada
Costume Designer Enver Chakartash
Set Designer Parker Lutz
Lighting Designer Thomas Dunn
Sculptural Designer Amanda Villalobos
Stage Manager Maurina Lioce
Technical Director & Audio Engineer Jørgen Skjærvold
Lighting Associate Krista Smith
Company Manager Becky Hermenze
Producer Mariana Catalina
Performers Susannah Perkins, Pete Simpson, Will Cobbs, Becca Blackwell
Images
Reality Winner image courtesy AAP
Production image Paula Court courtesy of The Kitchen

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