Clickety Tock
Clickety Tock
"The most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.” – Peter Drucker
A relationship starved, fast paced stock broker, a pedantic and frustrated personal trainer, an over-committed and talented uni student, a lost, heart-broken procrastinator, a beauty obsessed woman and an overwhelmed grandmother coping with the developments in technology. Take a fly on the wall look at these people, their choices, their lives.
How do you allocate your 168 hours a week?
Part truth, part surreal, part tongue in cheek - Clickety Tock is a fast paced, intriguing installation theatre piece that wonders into the chaotic, stressful and time starved life of the 21st Century.
Performed at the Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room June 2008.
Written and directed by Alex Desebrock with actors Rob Gaetano, Julianne Donovan, Erin Patton, Katharine Elder, Jordan Lee, and Glen Lloyd, along with puppetry by Michael Bevitt and set design by Dayna Morrissey.
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Review:
Australian Stage Online Review
Comments:
“… an inventive, brilliantly paced work…dialogue [that] is witty, shrewd and perceptive, and full of accurate observation of contemporary life.” Australian Stage Online
“This was something I will remember vividly..Excellent.” Anna, audience member
“Your amazing theatre piece discombobulated me and made me want to slow down….fucking brilliant.” Phoebe, audience member.
“More please!” MaryAnne Caleo, Greenroom Awards Association.