Outlaw
Directed by James Adler, written by Michael Healy
Studio 2, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne
August 20 — September 3
Bookings: Eaglenest.eventix.com.au, (03) 9384 6900
“A tyre slasher in Berlin — radical green politics or someone just blowing a gasket?”, reads the blurb for new play Outlaw. “The friends of Tilman Hessel — the local Green's party leader — think it might be him ...”
Outlaw follows the life of Hessel, a Greens party leader in Berlin, as he heads a campaign against pollution of the Danube river by an Australian gold mining company. The play follows rhe toll the mine takes, the suspicion that arises over a clandestine tyre slasher, and the subsequent media hysteria over the tyre slasher rather than the environment.
It underlines a green politician’s plight of being seen as a scourge of society, constantly speaking out against activities of powerful corporations and governments takes a heavy toll: A toll mostly invisible to others and therefore not understood.
The green fable features physical theatre and original composition by Charly Harrison and Dan Nixon. It asks how the rest of us would wear the mantle of “green” if our precious automobiles were attacked.
Outlaw is part two of writer Michael Healy’s Green Wolf trilogy. The first part, Green Wolf, had a successful run at the LaMama theatre in New York.