created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin
8-12 October 2008
Arts House, Meat Market

Full $37 / Groups (8+) $33 / Concessions $30 / Students $25

Chunky Move, the company behind the groundbreaking 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival work Glow returns to this year's festival with a bold new dance-theatre work that gives a rare glimpse into the performers' world and takes the audience backstage. Melbourne's leading contemporary dance company Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performances and Two Faced Bastard promises to be another truly extraordinary experience.

On either side of a dividing curtain a group of performers juggle two simultaneous shows played to two opposing audiences. Each exit through the curtain becomes an entrance on the other side. There is no backstage, nowhere to get off, nowhere to hide. As one world bleeds into another a unique performance emerges, cut loose from the rules that determine a performer's onstage/offstage life.

Created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin, Two Faced Bastard is a cleverly staged work that reveals our constant state of duality and capacity for treachery in the desire for individual gain. A tantilising look at two duplicitous worlds of fiction and reality, this production exposes its cast with often hilarious consequences.

For more information visit www.chunkymove.com