Malthouse Theatre

Director:  Benedict Andrews

Design:  Anna Tregloan

Lighting Design:  Paul Jackson

Composition and Sound Design:  Max Lyandvert

 

Set in an unnamed city, Eldorado is redolent of a classic comedy-of-manners turned inside out with an anatomist's precision, a coroner's efficiency and an undertaker's humour.

In this baroque dystopian vision, the private and public spheres are inseparable: an economy of consumption and production has infiltrated every corner of the domestic realm and colonises the inner lives of its subjects.  The gradual disintegration of the play's characters is the inexorable crumbling of a shattered vision; the revelation that the mythical city of gold is a legend founded on the blood of millions. 

 

Photos by Jeff Busby