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BIOGRAPHY: A GAME Up Next at Bakehouse Theatre Company

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Bakehouse Theatre Company presents BIOGRAPHY: A GAME showing both the comic and tragic outcomes of our choices that define all our lives. What if you could change your life, from any point you choose?

Written by Max Frisch (winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 1986), BIOGRAPHY: A GAME is directed by Joh Hartog and features Tim Lucas, Krystal Brock, Adam Carter, Patrick Clements, and Lisa Harper Campbell. Lighting and sound design is by Stephen Dean.

In this play, a middle-aged behavioural researcher Kürmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane. He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the colour of his living-room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, will Kürmann find himself trapped in the same decisions? Kürmann's life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. This is the central question of this play, which is brilliantly captured in Biography's dramaturgical form, in which a theatre rehearsal is set up as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life.

The ideas of choice, free will and consequences that are at explored in Biography: A Game will keep you talking long after you have left the theatre.

IF YOU GO:

BIOGRAPHY: A GAME

WHEN: August 4th to 20th. (Opening Night Saturday August 6th) All shows at 8pm.

WHERE: Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide.

TICKETS: Adults $30; Concession $25; TREv $25; Groups (6+) $25; School Students $18.

DURATION: 2 hours, plus interval

BOOKINGS: www.bakehousetheatre.com

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