Strange Soup - Creative Development
Creative Australia Artistic Support Material - Previous works
Strange Soup
By Roger Rynd and Catherine Pease. Music by Peter Winkler.
Strange Soup is a theatre piece for children that encourages an appreciation of difference and celebrates the power of imagination.
Strange Soup explores stories and myths from around the world and weaves them together to address a problem at the same time as promoting Korean and Australian culture through shared values, but most importantly, it models what is possible through collaboration across cultures and languages.
지하 Underground
Let your curiosity guide you to a pop-up Korean speakeasy that has taken root in a forgotten corner of the city. Drink the night away with the bar’s eccentric proprietor, as a tale of love transcending culture, language and gender unfolds to rhythms created by his staff, a ragtag crew of musicians. Indulge in a mix of live music and magical storytelling amidst a transitory world, where every hour is happy hour. Post-show, the bar stays open, bursting with performances by special friends and lovers.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
심청 ⟨Shimchong⟩: Daughter Overboard!
Most Koreans can recite Shimchong’s tale… Her mother died in childbirth, her father is blind, and she sacrifices herself to the Dragon King – the god under the sea – in order to restore her father’s sight. Sent back to the surface in a lotus flower, her destiny is to become queen. What if Shimchong was reborn in Australia, 2016; a young woman burning with revolutionary desire? Join us on this fast-paced, multilingual romp as Shimchong traipses through an Australia that seems to have gone to the dogs. This dark, political, and often hilarious retelling combines contemporary pop and traditional Korean music with physical theatre in an event that is as uniquely Australian as it is Korean.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
The 떡볶이 Box (The Dokboki Box)
Pull up a cheap plastic stool at The Dokboki Box and hear the cook sing her story as you share a Korean snack with the stranger next to you. Who knew we all had so much in common?
This collaboration serves up live music and performance inside a street side snack stall all the way from Seoul.
Questions are raised and rules are re-written as Younghee reveals a story about being good, and being bad, in order to survive in this world.
Deluge: 물의기
At once epic and incredibly personal, Deluge explores what happens to the psyche and physicality of the human body when it is confronted with the most destructive of nature’s forces. Through subtle transformation, explosive choreography, and dynamic vocalisation, the work explores the deep sorrow and sublime ecstasy that are hallmarks of Korean culture, refracted through an Australian lens that evokes the contradictory nature of our relationship with water – from droughts to flooding plains.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
Hello Project
“Hello Project is where you and I express ourselves and meet each other, through artistic expression“
– 수진 / Sujin (Project Participant)
Hello Project is performance making project, digital art book, and universally accessible exhibition created in 2020 by Company Bad in collaboration with a group of artists in Chuncheon, South Korea.