The Infirmary

The audience enters a richly poetic experience, a place where they can submit to the caring hands of others. Set in a hospital ward, The Infirmary offers a uniquely sensorial encounter that considers life and death as science and mystery. Can we ever be ready to die? How do we imagine our final hours? What might we feel or think at the threshold between life and death? Is there some value in contemplating death? Intimate, immersive and participatory, The Infirmary elicits strong, tender, and revelatory moments within an environment of total care. 

CREDITS

Project Concept Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
Writing & Dramaturgy Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Clair Korobacz
Performers Victoria Morgan Clair Korobacz Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy Julian Rickert Suzanne Kersten
Sound Design Clair Korobacz
Clinical Nursing Consultant Victoria Morgan
Lighting design John Ford
Set design Eloise Kent
Commissioned by ARTSHOUSE, Melbourne
Funded by ARTSHOUSE, Creative Victoria and the Besen Foundation
Premiere: Mere Mortals Festival 2018

PRESS

What’s truly remarkable is the way The Infirmary takes us into a time warping state in which we are barely conscious, yet receptive and thoughtful, in which we are completely disorientated, but tenaciously focused.

Chris Boyd The Australian

Towards the end of the show, I catch my reflection in a mirror, and I am shocked by what I see. I appear to be refreshed and rejuvenated. I seem happier and calmer than I have in a long time. I’m alive.

Myron My My Melbourne Arts