Back to Back extends its reach from stage to screen

The Geelong-based theatre company’s latest work is a 30-minute film, developed in collaboration with Matchbox Pictures and envisaged as a TV pilot.

Back to Back ensemble members Simon Laherty and Sonia Teuben star in Oddlands. Photo credit: Jeff Busby.

Adelaide Film Festival’s Hive Fund, which has already supported the likes of Windmill Theatre’s Girl Asleep and Bangarra’s Spear, has supported Back to Back Theatre’s first screen experiment.

Oddlands, produced by Back to Back in collaboration with Matchbox Pictures, has its world premiere at this week’s Adelaide Film Festival. It will screen on the ABC early next year and is envisaged as a 30-minute pilot for a new television series.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts