Atlantis

Campaign image for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Atlantis

By Chanella Macri

25 October 2023 – 03 November 2023 Beckett Theatre

Malthouse Theatre,

Theatre Commission New Work The Suitcase Series Education

Theatre lovers and climate activists alike are invited to experience Malthouse Theatre's acclaimed new play Atlantis from our award-winning Suitcase Series program.

 

Three friends gather in a theatre to talk about the Big One: CLIMATE CHANGE. But before they can even agree on how Big this Big One is, a tsunami hits—and both they and the audience are dragged to the bottom of the ocean…

Using Plato’s ancient myth of a sunken city as an anchor point, Atlantis is an allegory for Australia in its current stage of climate crisis—and the search for lost systems of knowledge that might help us understand our relationship to the environment. Drawing on Indigenous and Pasifika philosophies and modes of storytelling, this fantastical play is ultimately about young people stepping into their power as future guardians of country.

Gothic and absurd, hard-hitting and hilarious, classic and contemporary… Atlantis by Chanella Macri is the seventh play commissioned for Malthouse’s award-winning Suitcase Series, starring John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri and Kira Samu, and directed by Isabella Vadiveloo.

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri, Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott
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Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri, Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Chanella Macri, Kira Samu. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Atlantis'. In photo: Kira Samu, John Marc Desengano, Chanella Macri. Photographer: Tamarah Scott

Cast

John Marc Desengano

John Marc Desengano

Performer (Y & Various)

Chanella Macri

Chanella Macri

Performer (Z & Various)

Kira Samu

Kira Samu

Performer (X & Various)

Creatives

Isabella Vadiveloo

Isabella Vadiveloo

Director, Audio Visual Design

Karine Larché

Karine Larché

Set & Costume Designer, Audio Visual Design

Kit Cunneen

Kit Cunneen

Lighting Designer

Rex Pelman

Rex Pelman

Composer & Sound Designer

Jethro Woodward

Jethro Woodward

Composition & sound Design Mentor

Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard

Dramaturg

Marline Zaibak

Marline Zaibak

Casting Director

Harry Dowling

Harry Dowling

Stage Manager

Acknowledgements

The Suitcase Series also receives generous support from individual Malthouse Muse donors.

Production Program