World premiere: The Museum of Modern Love comes to the stage

Seymour Centre, Sydney

22 January — 30 January, 2022

Sydney Festival hosts the world premiere of the stage adaptation of internationally acclaimed novel The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose.

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Following a successful series of development readings staged as part of Sydney Festival 2021, Seymour Centre is proud to present the world premiere production of The Museum of Modern Love at Sydney Festival 2022.

Adapted from the Stella Prize-winning novel by Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love follows New York-based film composer, Arky Levin, a man struggling to live and work in the face of incredible loss.

By chance, Arky finds his way to MoMA and sees Marina Abramović in The Artist is Present—a marathon and now-legendary feat of performance art that saw Abramović sitting silent and completely still opposite thousands of museum visitors in the spring of 2010.

Arky returns to MoMA again and again, and encounters other viewers also drawn to the exhibit, each with their own reasons for spending hours in the presence of Abramović. As the performance unfolds, so does Arky, and with his life coming back into focus, he finally understands what he must do to move forward.

Set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history, and blurring the lines between spectator and artist, this transfixing new work explores dying and living, courage and commitment—and meditates on the power of art to unite and connect us, even in an increasingly disconnected world.

Playwright Tom Holloway
Play based on the novel by Heather Rose
Director Tim Jones
Dramaturg and Assistant Director Erin Taylor
Designer Stephen Curtis
Lighting Designer Alexander Berlage
Video and Sound Designer David Bergman
Costume Designer Veronique Benett
Voice Coach Linda Nichols-Gidley
Stage Manager Michelle Sverdloff
Production Manager Barry Searle
Cast Justin Amankwah, Julian Garner, Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Sophie Gregg, Glenn Hazeldine, Aileen Huynh, Tara Morice, Jennifer Rani

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