PETA DOWNES
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
by Fin Kennedy
Drama Theatre, AIM Sydney
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Peta Downes
CAST Peter Brown, Natasha Cheng, Mendy Ip, Daniel O'Neill, Sasha Pignataro, Simon Porro, Sophie Shafeeva, Shenae Smith, and Iyrah Tzanis.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Samira Spring
PRODUCTION MANAGER Alexander Langley
STAGE MANAGER Joanna Kedziora
SET AND PROPS DESIGNER Solange Iputau
COSTUME DESIGNER Emma McCormick
LIGHTING DESIGNER Jacinta Frizelle
SOUND DESIGNER Emily Gregson, Neil Parikh
VISUALS DESIGNER Lachlan Armstrong, Emily Gregson
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PHOTOGRAPHY Heidrun Löhr
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SYNOPSIS
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An award-winning black comedy about identity and the traces that we leave on the world around us. Set in contemporary London against the backdrop of a fast-paced, drug-fuelled corporate world, the action is focused on Charlie and the isolation he feels in a socially-connected and marketed environment, and a life where the accumulation of things is more important than true relationships with people.Inspired by the hundreds of thousands of people who go missing every year, Fin Kennedy notes that the central theme of the play is "identity in the 21st century" as well as "the sense of alienation from one another and from ourselves which many people seem to experience as a by-product of modern life".
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HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND was a 2018 AIM Dramatic Arts production featuring graduating Bachelor of Performance students.