I'm Your Man

A Belvoir production, created by Roslyn Oades 
Presented by Vitalstatistix and Mobile States

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You enter a boxing gym: place of dreams, of glory, of a better life. The walls are covered in inspirational quotes, bodies are in constant motion and minds are elsewhere. The stakes are high. Everyone wants to be special; we all have something to prove.

For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined young boxer from Bankstown, NSW, through his preparations for a world-title fight. I’m Your Man is the story of who she met along the way: past legends, up-and-comers and failed contenders whose lives have been irreversibly changed by the fight game. 

I’m Your Man is no ordinary slice-of-life. The actors wear earpieces and take their words directly from the ringsides, gyms and dressing rooms of Oades’ recordings. The result is a hyper-natural form of documentary theatre where visual appearance is rendered unreliable and the audience’s focus shifts into a heightened state of listening.

This is a surprising, sweaty, energy-fuelled study of a contemporary drama, not to be missed.

Creator & director: Roslyn Oades

Sound designer: Bob Scott

Lighting designer: Neil Simpson

Movement director: Lee Wilson (Branch Nebula)

Script dramaturg: Raimondo Cortese

Peformers: Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Billy McPherson, Katia Molino, Justin Rosniak & John Shrimpton

6 SHOWS ONLY!

7 - 11 August

8pm Wednesday - Sunday and 2pm Saturday (post show Q&A Thursday 8 August)

Waterside, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide

$32 full; $27 concession; $22 Fringe Benefits

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For more information phone 84476211

Download the I'm Your Man e-flyer here.