Chase

Meet Chase. She’s living her best life. Compelling, repelling, and funny, Chase sifts through the weeds of contemporary culture with a handy cam and her YouTube subscribers for company. Chase is an experimental hybrid theatre work exploring existential dread, class, isolation and pseudo-spirituality on the edge of a dying world. The gunk and detritus that make up a capitalist life and death are forced through Chase’s prism, with dwindling context and no earthly future. A macro metaphor of our colonial shame, if only Chase understood half of what she helps others discover.

Chase Show Trailer

Credits

Concept and Performer – Carly Sheppard

Co-Devised – Carly Sheppard and Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Director – Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Set Designer, Sound Designer and Composition – small sound

Sound Designer and Composition – Richie Brownlee

Lighting Designer – Katie Sfetkidis

Videographer – Devika Bilimoria

Video Editor – Alex Mansell

Stage Manager – Cointha Walkeden

Producer – Annie Bourke

Presentations

2023 Malthouse Theatre – Double-bill with Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that i AM

2023 Sydney WorldPride

2022 Malthouse Theatre and HotHouse Theatre

Accolades

2022 Kate Challis RAKA Award – Highly Commended for script

2022 Green Room Awards –  Nomination for Best Performance

2022 Green Room Awards –  Nomination for Lighting Design

Quotes

Australian Arts Review – “Chase is as hilariously challenging as it is traumatic and confronting”

Lilitha Reviews – “A glorious collision between experimental theatre and arthouse cinema …”

Lilitha Reviews – “Bell-Wykes and Sheppard are pure geniuses.”

Support

Chase was commissioned by Malthouse Theatre through the support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.