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Give Me Your Love

Ridiculusmus (AU/UK)

Presented in Season 2 2015

World Premiere
Presented by Arts House and Ridiculusmus

7.30pm, Wed 18 Nov
7.30pm, Thu 19 Nov with Post-Show Q&A
7.30pm, Fri 20 Nov
2pm, Sat 21 Nov
7.30pm, Sat 21 Nov
5pm, Sun 22 Nov
70 mins

Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne

Accessibility:

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Wheelchair Accessible

Warning:
Coarse language, nudity, smoke effects

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“Subtly disturbing, genuinely funny, a theatre experience which navigates the spaces between psychosis and sanity.”

In a kitchen, somewhere in West Wales, a war veteran called Zach has withdrawn into a box. A friend called Ieuan arrives, offering recovery in the form of dialogue and a capsule containing 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine. He’s participated in trials for treating chronic PTSD with psychedelic drugs, and says he’s cured.

What follows soars into a psychoactive dream of delirium, trauma and supermarket shopping as the two men are parachuted into their own fractured pasts; their symptoms expressing the pathologies of a disturbed world.

Give Me Your Love is the second instalment of Ridiculusmus’s three-pronged investigation into innovative approaches to mental health. Informed by the latest scientific research, it explores the healing potential in altered states of consciousness.

Written, Directed & Performed by:
David Woods and Jon Haynes


Supported by – Give Me Your Love has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University; and the City of Melbourne through Arts House.
Image by – Sarah Walker