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A Note on Grand Theft Theatre, Adelaide Festival 2024

When we talk about  Grand Theft Theatre  we usually try to explain it as an act of collective memory. Or of summoning the theatre ghosts that continue to haunt us. Of course, both of those things are true. But the more times we return to this show (Adelaide marks its third iteration), the more it feels like that  Grand Theft Theatre  is an attempt to understand ourselves via our collective obsession with our chosen artform. The structure of  Grand Theft Theatre  is simple - 6 artists reflect upon, then attempt to create an echo of, a moment from a theatre work that was in some way significant to us. We each do this twice, though there are many more than 12 performances that reverberate throughout  Grand Theft Theatre . Our memories of these shows are always partial, sometimes confused, and often colored by the context of how and when they were viewed. Our attempts to recreate moments from these shows, without means and shorn of context, are always doomed for failure. But something in t

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