What’s on:

Pin Drop

Tamara Saulwick

A sudden noise that wakes you in the night. A shadowy movement glimpsed down a darkened alley. The sensation that there might be someone in the room with you. Waiting.

 

Part documentary, part urban thriller, Pin Drop is an immersive audio-sensory experience exploring the most private of experiences – fear.

Tapping into our primal urges and subconscious anxieties, Pin Drop draws on a series of interviews with people aged six to 92. Live voice mingles with the disembodied sounds of pre-recorded conversations; household objects are transformed into potential threats, and the most familiar of spaces become strange, as the mind plots the shortest route to a safe place to hide.

Conjured into life by Tamara Saulwick’s rivetting solo performance and Peter Knight’s visceral score, this award-winning production has left reviewers and punters alike breathless.

Now it’s your turn. Join us, as the darkness falls…

“It’s remarkable theatre, executed with an exact brilliance that makes its sensual vividness all the more powerful. The theatre becomes, quite nakedly, a kind of psychic echo chamber. This is not to be missed.” Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes

Pin Drop makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and might leave you scared of the dark.” Aussie Theatre

“One of the most extraordinarily involving and rewarding theatrical experiences. Unforgettable. Go.” Geoffrey Williams, Stage Whispers

“Saulwick’s Pin Drop is a tour de force of fear.” Stephen Russell, Time Out Melbourne

Tamara Saulwick website

Current dates

Touring history

  • North Melbourne Town Hall, Arts House
    Aug 2010
  • Beckett Theatre at The Malthouse Theatre
    Jul 2011

Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.