Artistic Team
TALYA RUBIN (Original Concept, Performer, Writer, Co-devisor)
NICK JAMES (Co-devisor, Director)
SAM JAMES (Projections Design)
NIKLAS PAJANTI (Lighting Design)
DANIEL HERTEN & HAYLEY FORWARD (Sound Design)
RACHAEL DEASE (Composer)
TIM COLLINS (Voice Alteration)
LAURA HEFFERNAN & TALYA RUBIN (Set Design)
TARRYN GILL (Red Monkey Maker)
JANET CARTER (Set Builder)
ALISON HALIT (Producer)
Developments
2018: Terrapin Puppet Theatre Australian Contemporary Puppetry Residency – Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2019: Rex Cramphorn Studio, Sydney University - Creative Development, Sydney, NSW
2019: Fremantle Arts Cente - Artist in Residence, Fremantle, WA
2019: Arts House, CultureLAB – Creative Development, Melbourne VIC
2021: Spare Parts - Creative Development, Fremantle, WA
2022: PICA - Creative Development, Perth, WA
Premiere:
28 November - 2 December 2023 PICA, Perth
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At the End of the Land is supported by the City of Melbourne through Arts House. It was developed with the assistance of Terrapin Puppet Theatre through the Australian Contemporary Puppetry Residency; and the Visual Arts Residency Program with Fremantle Arts Centre, which is part of the City of Fremantle and is supported by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries; and Spare Parts Puppet Theatre through its artist in residence program. An early video iteration of the project was part of LIVE DREAMS, presented by Performance Space. This project has also been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. WA Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo) performs a local engagement role in the 2023 PICA season of At the End of the Land.
At the End of the Land is a contemporary solo performance work about the liminal space between life and death.
The story around what happened to the 18 schoolgirls contains gothic horror inspired elements, using puppetry, objects, miniature projections and holograms to explore the inanimate and uncanny, breathing life into what appears dead.
Follow an unreliable teenage narrator and her Red Monkey sidekick into the afterlife as she muses over the disappearance of her fellow Victorian-era orphans and what it’s like to be dead.
This David Lynchian solo show from poet and performance maker Talya Rubin uses spirit photography, mediumship, and projections, as Rubin explores her own brushes with the beyond in a frenzied, non-linear narrative.
Part encounter, part gothic horror, At the End of the Land is a highly aesthetic, uncanny investigation into the things we cannot explain.