Presented by DADAA in association with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Propel Youth Arts WA as part of KickstART Festival

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Break free from the codes of expected behaviour and let your naughty out!

A young man sits at a table offering compliments to the audience. A series of affirmations descends into a shouting contest. A woman tears pages from a book, piling up the scrunched pieces of paper. A solitary voice pierces the darkness, chaos erupts, and the binding breaks.

Showing the pleasure and comic beauty of trying to be ourselves when the rules don’t quite fit the way we want to be. Exploring what it feels like to be attempting to fit into a mold that is narrow, outdated, and doesn’t come close to being able to handle the depth of your potential.

Sight Unseen is a playful theatre work, performed and filmed in the PICA Performance Space, that celebrates breaking free of the codes of expected behaviour and the necessity of letting your naughty out. A rabble of eight young performers from DADAA’s Youth Performance Group open up to the audience and reminds us all that our quirks and difference are what makes us interesting.

Filmed and recorded by Jessica Russell and Haresh Chandra at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts on Thursday 14 April 2022.