Oracle:
- A divine communication or revelation.
- Any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication.
- Any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.
Join us for an exploration of ‘oracles’, from antiquity through to modernity; from the mouths of divine prophets and gods, to fortune cookies and mad women, to Wikipedia and Siri.
‘Oracle’ follows Quantum Egg’s pioneer anthology night, ‘Algorithm’, with another genre-bending line-up of weird and wonderful writing for stage.
The line up of pieces, selected from over 70 world-wide submissions are:
TOUGH COOKIES by Brett Hursey
Fortune cookies foretell a first date gone comically wrong.
TAROT, TOIL AND TROUBLE by Trevor Suthers
A riff on Shakespeare’s MacBeth about the worst machinations of local drug lord, Mackey MacMeth.
TO THE EARTH YOU SHALL RETURN by Hannah Mirsky
Iona bloom has a divine purpose. She’s been tasked by the gods to build a sacred site to honour them. Unfortunately for her, the field where she needs to build it is farmer Arthur’s best grazing spot - and it’s full of ewes about to lamb.
WORLD WIDE WEB by Frank Wilson-Caines
A small town beneath Mount Vesuvius, circa 79 AD. A struggling temple’s luck is changing with the arrival of a new Oracle, one with scarily accurate prophecies and an acute knowledge of 20th/201st century pop culture.
MESSAGES by Adelaide Marshall
‘Messages’ is what you get from paying attention to everything for too long. A monologue play for modernity.