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The Confidence Man

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A life and death situation has never been so fun

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When a large sports bag full of cash is brought into Peter’s very ordinary home, his family find themselves caught up in a sinister and disturbing chain of events. You are invited to step onto the floor and into this gripping thriller, experiencing first-hand the sordid betrayal and moral philandering that’s about to smother this suburban dream.

Created by award winning company Side Pony Productions (The Pride, The Wives of Hemingway, The Manic Pony), director Zoe Pepper brings you a new interactive audio experience which places the audience at the centre of the action: you are the gun slinging drug dealer, the obnoxious teenage daughter, the smooth talking con man. Being in the middle of a life and death situation has never been so fun.

Performed by six audience members, equipped with masks and headsets that guide them through the story using a combination of sound track, narration and pre-recorded dialogue, participants navigate the space, experiencing events in the first person. Each participant hears an individualised audio track, specific to their character, which instructs their movement, informs their gestures and gives them a personalised perspective on the story.

Those who prefer to watch can survey the action from the perimeter, eavesdropping on the characters’ most private thoughts and conversations. Listening through headphones the audience use a personal console to toggle between the audio of the different characters; building their own unique experience as they choose the action they want to follow.

The Confidence Man is Dogville meets Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. A morally complex tale complete with goodies, baddies, and a dose of good old fashioned psychotic menace. Featuring vocal performances by some of Perth’s finest actors including Igor Sas, Andrew Hale, Talei Howell Price, Kate Neylon, Brendan Ewing and Adriane Daff, The Confidence Man unfolds with the gripping intimacy of a tale whispered in your ear.

“A truly unique and enriching experience for all. Highly recommended”
- Aiden Johnson, Pop Culture-y

Actors and audience are all in this together… an intriguing experience
- Lucy Graham, Weekend Notes

Seamless sound design makes for total immersion
- Rebecca Harkins-Cross, The Age

Thought-provoking and fascinating – 4 stars
- Artshub

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Side Pony Productions
Side Pony Productions supports the productions of director Zoe Pepper. Under her leadership the company creates predominantly devised theatre, building fresh new performance through a well-trodden devising process. Side Pony strives to make innovative theatre that is an engaging, smart celebration of humanity. Side Pony’s work is laced with a deep sense of irony and the use of comedy to create empathy is pivotal.

What drives the process is a love of story, a diligence to create enduring plot structures and a commitment to creating characters that reflect the many contradictions of the human condition especially the conflicting notion that good people do bad things. Alongside creating works for black box theatres the company is beginning to move into new and sometimes less conventional theatrical forms as well as film.


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