Queer theatre for the birds, made in Narrm.

Image by Jaimi Houston

Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

FUTURE

Created by
Pigeon Pigeon
9  —  20 October, 2024
Festival Hub: Trades Hall

An exhilarating crowd-sourced vision of the future assembled by award-winning theatre-makers.

Approx. 1 hour, with no interval

We asked hundreds of people just like you to predict the future, and we got hundreds of different answers. Some prophesied desolate wastelands while others saw a world which “looks bright… and gay. bright and gay.”

FUTURE is truly by community, for community – from the collective dreaming it fosters, to the gently participatory nature and the genuine care that is taken to meet a range of accessibility needs. 

Monique Nair for ArtsHub

​FUTURE was a devised verbatim work built from real predictions about the future, combining utopian aesthetics, visual poetry, and a lofty vision—to create a map for how to navigate the future. 

FUTURE created a space to consider our fate on our own terms and imagine a future which might just turn out ok. It was an evening of fears, dreams, hopes, and laments charting a universal destiny. The future’s calling, and we need you to pick up. 

PIGEONPIGEON’s attention to accessibility should be applauded

Cher Tan for The Age