Text by Raimondo Cortese. Music Jack Bochow. Victorian Theatre Company and Brisbane Music Festival. Theatre Works at Explosives Factory. 1 – 10 May 2025
How to describe St Kilda Tales without defining it, assigning a genre, or putting it in a box? Musical Director and musician Alex Raineri, the Brisbane Music Festival Artistic Director, seems to call it a rave – and he asks how we can push the boundaries of rave. Here, rave music runs end to end of this nearly two-hour production, across and over the drama on stage. And how to describe that? It’s a montage, or a series of snapshots, or a series of tableaux of St Kilda people, street scenes, chance and not so chance encounters. As a