The Waiting Place. Performed and Created by The Chaotic Order 2011.

The Waiting Place is an intimate performance work investigating distinctions between the world outside and the world within.  
Created by interdisciplinary ensemble The Chaotic Order, the work combines animation with live performance in a series short vignettes. It’s a reflective piece – in both a literal and figurative sense – as the performers mirror the audience, echo everyday activities and fuse the mundane with the idiosyncratic. It’s art that returns your gaze in order to explore the human condition.

The Waiting Place is at once somewhere and nowhere, a place we all find ourselves. It’s where we confront life’s paradoxes and the absurdities that variously define, embrace and confound us. 

Each of The Chaotic Order’s performers is regarded as having an intellectual disability. It’s something that informs the piece, but isn’t the driving influence. For that, we look to insight, humanity and shared experience. The resulting work is darkly humorous, transcending social, ethical and cultural definitions. It’s a rethinking of our perceived differences, and a call to what is common between us.

- Aden Rolfe 

The Waiting Place will premiere as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival at Footscray Community Arts Center. from 29th September – 8th October. 
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