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The Cat in the Box

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The Blue Room Theatre and Follow That Cat present:

The Cat in the Box
Written by Vivienne Glance
Directed and designed by Mark Barford

The Blue Room Theatre opens Season Two 2012 with The Cat in the Box, an absurdist comedy presented in a darkly humorous and unique style. Written by local award-winning playwright Vivienne Glance and directed by Mark Barford, the show runs from 31 July to 18 August 2012.

The play is a comic look at what happens when an artist, a scientist and a hippy are locked in a room with a cockroach and a pile of junk. The volatile atmosphere explodes when a millionaire enters the scene. Can they get out of the room? Can they work out what is real? Was Schrödinger wrong about the cat in the box?

Glance is fascinated with all things scientific, and how science and technology have become such a major part of our lives. She says “The Cat in the Box goes beyond the culture clash between art and science and brings money and a spiritual quest into the room.”

But underlying the whole play is the question: how do we all get on together without turning everything into a catfight? Is law and order the only solution, and how much freedom should we give up before law and order goes too far? And who can best answer this – science, art, commerce or religion?

“If you question reality, it can send your head into a real spin,” says director Mark Barford.

What about that cat? In 1935 Erwin Schrodinger asked the question whether we could really know something until we look at it or measure it. He came up with a thought experiment: imagine a cat in a box…until you check, it could be either alive or dead, or not, depending on whatever happened inside the box when you weren’t looking! The thought experiment was designed to question certain ideas of the time about quantum physics. Just as today The Cat in the Box is questioning, in a most light-hearted way, if art, science, religion and money can ever get on together! The same can’t be said for Schrodinger’s unfortunate cat.

31 July – 18 August
Meet the artists – Wed 8 Aug
The Blue Room Theatre
53 James St Perth Cultural Centre Northbridge
Tickets & info: blueroom.org.au // 08 9227 7005

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