Tame

By Declan Greene, 2012

THE MALTHOUSE

Now it's eaten the family dog....Will apathy, disorganisation or their new visitor (a polar bear) ever allow this family to leave the house again? Tame is an episodic work exploring one family’s increasingly entangling predicament. Tame uses a variety of theatrical forms and conventions to humorously and poignantly explore our behavioural response to what David Suzuki describes as a 'slow motion catastrophe'; climate change.

Tame was the second script commissioned for the Suitcase Series, Malthouse Theatre's award-winning education program, established in 2010. The program sees Year 9 & 10 drama students use theatre to explore their relationship to climate change, with a new script commissioned every two years.

The script functions as source material for the students to explore, developing their own theatrical responses and presenting them to each other in conjunction with the Malthouse production.

This production was remounted in 2013.

Director Kate Sulan
Playwright Declan Greene
Sculptor/Designer Marg Horwell
Composition/Sound Design Jed Palmer
Lighting Design  Katie Sftekidis

Performers
Ash Flanders, Kath Tonkin, Terry Yeboah, Karen Sibbing, Kevin Hofbauer ( tour)