by Finegan Kruckemeyer

'Hibernation' is set in a very near future, in which the Australian Minister for Space Exploration pitches an innovative solution to the impending climate catastrophe, human hibernation. The world agrees and all of humanity is sent into hibernation for one year. In that year birds multiply, football fields become forests and oceans teem again. At the same time, domestic dogs become feral, subways collapse, and there are some few people who don’t go to sleep. 'Hibernation' explores what might happen, given that - humans being humans – the benefits of saving the world are mainly reaped by the rich and the losses are mainly suffered by the poor. Stories of love, loss and revolution are wound together in a poetic evocation of one possible future.

CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Maude Davey

Set Designer: Viv Hargreaves

Costume Designer: Ashley Reid

Lighting and Vision Designer: Alyssa Clay

Associate Lighting Designer: Mae E Harrison

Composer: John Sharp

Voice and Dialect Coach: Alexandra Whitham

Intimacy Coordinator: Isabella Vadiveloo

Fight Coordinator: Colin Sneesby

Assistant Directors: Michael Honeyma, Karina White

Stage Manager: Blaze Bryans

Assistant Stage Manager: August Johnson

Workshop Head of Department (Scenic): Willow Argus

Workshop Head of Department (Staging): Sara Bayley

Workshop Assistant Head of Department (Staging): Yolanda Box

Workshop Assistants: Georgia Formosa, Natalie Wing Hei Lau, Helen Zhang

Costume Assistants: Jamie Garcia, Mia Gionfriddo

Head Electrician: Lachlan Careedy

Lighting Programmer and Operator: Mae E Harrison

CAST

India Firth, Noah Gill, Remy Heremaia, Annabel Hunter, Austin MacDonald, Elowen Murphy, Michelle Rupert, Molly Simpson, Hunter Stanford