promiscuous
/cities

by Lachlan Philpott

2022 | UK/Australia Season,
London EN
2023 | Midsumma Festival,
Melbourne AU

They’ve written endless songs about this city.

Can you feel the street’s pulse, how it rushes through your veins like a drug?

He’s in trouble, she’s falling in love, they’re cheating, she’s trapped and he’s alone.

But keep moving since we mustn’t fall behind.

A symphony of a single night in San Francisco – utopian dream destination of queers and misfits, promiscuous/cities encompasses a night in a big city where each of us is frantically maintaining the myth of ourselves we’ve created. Yet underneath the vision of ourselves that we peddle on social media – like! – there is an aching distance between us.

Performance details:

  • Presented as part of the British Council’s UK/Australia Season

    22-25 June 2022
    Embassy Theatre, London

  • Presented as part of Midsumma Festival

    19-24 January 2023
    Theatre Works, Melbourne

London Production

DIRECTOR
Alyson Campbell
COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER
Meta Cohen
ASSOCIATE ARTIST
El Henderson
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Sam D L MacKay
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Becky Stockley
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER
Bex Kemp
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Laurence Deane
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Max Sharp
PERFORMERS
Felicia Akin-Tayo, Omer Cem-Coltu, Ksenia Elinson, Marvellous Ellyone-Fayose, Maximilian Fairley, Adrian Greensmith, Wisdom Iheoma, Felix Kai, Prince Kundai, Marian Lee, Jemma Martin, Sidsel Rostrup, Elinor Solly, Jason Theodoulou
PHOTOGRAPHY
Patrick Baldwin

Melbourne Production

DIRECTOR
Alyson Campbell
SET DESIGNER
Leon Salom
SOUND DESIGNER
AND COMPOSER

Meta Cohen
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Emma Lockhart-Wilson
COSTUME DESIGNER
Casey Harper-Wood
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Amelia Burke
PERFORMERS
Tayla Abbott, Miela Anich, Endrico Botha, Hugo Gutteridge, Nicola Ingram, James Ironside, Guy Knowler, Jess Lu, Brittany Ng, Max J Palmerson, Oliver Tapp, Kurt Pimblett and Luce Wirthensohn
STAGE MANAGER
Sunny Youngsmith
PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Oliver Tapp & Brittany Ng
MARKETING
Tayla Abbott
PRODUCER
Jess Lu
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sarah Vickery

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