CARDINIA Shire theatre goers, you have been warned.
Donkeys are set to take the stage at Emerald’s Gemco Theatre, and it’s not going to be for everyone.
“This is not a theatre work for prudes,” director Rainsford Towner said.
“It contains nudity and some contoversial adult themes, including incest and dark absurdist humour, as well as a very humble donkey.”
Endlings Immaculate is the latest theatre work to come out of the stable of a performing arts company that has toured the world, Chapel of Change.
This award winning company originally produced its works from a studio in Fitzroy, but is now based at The Patch, and has chosen to premier its new production, Endlings Immaculate, in Emerald.
Endlings Immaculate is set in the hull of a large fishing boat, the boat is going nowhere, in fact it has never left its mooring.
Inside a mother has given birth to what she believes are four immaculate conceptions, all now adult sons, she waits in anticipation of a fifth miraculous birth.
She considers herself a perpetual virgin, and while she subsumes all the aspects of motherly love for her four divine sons, each of them competes for her incestuous attention.
Each of her sons has a fragmented memory of their past, and as the darker ocean begins to leak into the vessel, the sons are determined to escape what has become a psychologically fragmented and closeted existence with their eremite Mother.
Above them on the top deck, a lowly donkey carries the material burdens of the poor; and holds all knowledge of the true story inside the endlings absurd fishing boat.
The show will appear at the Gemco Theatre on 27 and 28 February and on 1 March from 8pm.
