Burnout Paradise (Adelaide)
Four performers. Four treadmills. One escalating test of survival, admin, and absurd endurance.
The longest running show in Adelaide. Four performers mount four treadmills. What begins as a simple wager between performer and audience becomes a madcap attempt to complete a series of escalating tasks that push their bodies and minds to the limit. Over 70 euphoric minutes, the members of Pony Cam collective undertake the four tasks every artist must complete every week: survival, admin, performance and leisure. From making a three-course meal to wildly submitting a grant application, their accelerating antics chart an unravelling revelation that the system we participate in is not designed for us. After thrilling audiences on Broadway and in Europe, one of Australia’s most playful theatre collectives bring their five-star pandemonium to Adelaide to create sheer bedlam.
Organizer
Pony CamVenue
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Category
Theatrical GamesTag
ComedyStart date
March 7th, 2027
End date
March 14th, 2027
Audience Role
This show relies on the kindness of strangers.
Ages: All ages
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Events
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Years on EI
About Pony Cam
We are an award winning experimental collective of five theatre makers from around Australia. Our work is driven by a desire to bring people together to create experiences that could not otherwise be had. By subverting well-known forms, activating unexpected spaces, and inviting audiences into our work in unexpected ways, we create moments where audiences are challenged to question their assumptions, laugh at themselves, and reject habitual recourse. As an ensemble we have trained together for over five years, and our practice is instinctive, physical, and highly playful. No two of our works are formally the same, but each is driven by a desire to reimagine our impact in the world, find joy in community, remain utterly silly and laugh in the face of tragedy. The current line up for Pony Cam is Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub and Hugo Williams.