No One Gets Out of Here Alive dances with death: ‘We want it to go beyond words’
Playing Brisbane Festival and then Bleach Festival, No One Gets Out of Here Alive is a dance-theatre work about an unusual subject: the end we're all going to face.
The Farm’s No One Gets Out of Here Alive. Photo: Billie Wilson Coffey.
The end that awaits us all. As certain only as taxes. However poetically or euphemistically we choose to label it, death is inescapable. The Farm’s bold new production claims another elegant description for its title – No One Gets Out of Here Alive – but the Gold Coast-based performing arts company cannot be accused of avoiding the inevitable.
‘That was super clear and important to us – that there’s something missing a lot of the time in our culture’s need to feel like we’re going to live forever, and everything about consumption and the idea of bigger and better all the time,’ he tells ArtsHub.
Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.
