by Peter Handke, translated by Meredith Oakes

Directed by Patrick Nolan

This will be an experience like no other in Sydney this year – extraordinary theatre in an extraordinary place.

Presented by Legs on the Wall and NIDA

21-24 August 2010, 8pm | Customs House Square

“Only through what comes after does that which has gone before gain contours; and what went on before sculpts what is to come.”

With these words Peter Handke describes the action of his play, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, a meditation on a city square, in which we bear witness to the lives of over four hundred characters as they come and go on their daily rounds. Tramps, firemen, hunters, queens, superheroes and babies are some of the multitude you will encounter in this remarkable play, in which so much is revealed but not a word is spoken.

The forecourt of Customs House was specially chosen for this production as its history, like the play, carries the traces of the rich community of lives that have walked through it and lived upon it for the past forty thousand years or more.

Performance Dates:

Saturday 21 August 2010 8pm
Sunday 22 August 2010       8pm
Monday 23 August 2010 8pm
Tuesday 24 August 2010 8pm

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Please note:  This is an outdoor performance so please dress warmly. The sound for this performance will be broadcast through individual headsets. Performance will go ahead in all but extreme weather conditions.
 
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