Malthouse Theatre, Rising 2024 In an escalating series of tasks performed on four treadmills, Burnout Paradise is a mockery of our struggle to establish boundaries in life and work.
Four performers mount four treadmills to push multi-tasking to its limits. Driven by an escalating series of tasks, Burnout Paradise is a delusional love letter to the labour, recklessness and euphoric optimism that comes before burnout. Pony Cam has a list of things that need to be done. Some are essential, some are pleasurable, and some have been requested by the directors of RISING. All of them need to be completed. All within an hour, all while running on a treadmill.
What begins as a simple wager, emerges as an unpredictable spectacle. A long-form mockery of our attempt to establish boundaries in life and work. A transformation of the performance space into something more gladiatorial.
“It’s sheer bedlam in the most magnificent way, with the very nature of the show meaning the impending disaster trail will unravel wildly differently every night.”
— TIME OUT
Created by/
Pony Cam
Performed by/
Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub & Hugo Williams with Laura Aldous.
Produced by/
Pony Cam and Parrot Ox
Lighting Designer/
Dans Maree Sheehan
Presented with/
Rising & Malthouse Theatre
Where/
Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Theatre
When/
Thur June 13th - 6pm & 9pm
Fri June 14th - 7pm
Sat June 15th 6pm & 9pm
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Rising Festival, Auspicious Arts, These are the Projects We Do Together and Andrew Signor for the support and Tom Richards, Rinske Ginsberg, Marco Cher-Gibard Robert Walton and Jason Maling for your ideas and feedback.
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BURNOUT PARADISE
Malthouse Theatre, Rising 2024 In an escalating series of tasks performed on four treadmills, Burnout Paradise is a mockery of our struggle to establish boundaries in life and work.
Four performers mount four treadmills to push multi-tasking to its limits. Driven by an escalating series of tasks, Burnout Paradise is a delusional love letter to the labour, recklessness and euphoric optimism that comes before burnout. Pony Cam has a list of things that need to be done. Some are essential, some are pleasurable, and some have been requested by the directors of RISING. All of them need to be completed. All within an hour, all while running on a treadmill.
What begins as a simple wager, emerges as an unpredictable spectacle. A long-form mockery of our attempt to establish boundaries in life and work. A transformation of the performance space into something more gladiatorial.
“It’s sheer bedlam in the most magnificent way, with the very nature of the show meaning the impending disaster trail will unravel wildly differently every night.”
— TIME OUT
Created by/
Pony Cam
Performed by/
Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub & Hugo Williams with Laura Aldous.
Produced by/
Pony Cam and Parrot Ox
Lighting Designer/
Dans Maree Sheehan
Presented with/
Rising & Malthouse Theatre
Where/
Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Theatre
When/
Thur June 13th - 6pm & 9pm Fri June 14th - 7pm Sat June 15th 6pm & 9pm
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Rising Festival, Auspicious Arts, These are the Projects We Do Together and Andrew Signor for the support and Tom Richards, Rinske Ginsberg, Marco Cher-Gibard Robert Walton and Jason Maling for your ideas and feedback.