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Freak Sons & Daughters is a tragedy at its comic best! Come face to face with the unique and strange bonds that exist between family members. It is about black sheep and odd balls, pillars of strength and curses, all within two perfectly normal families. Dangerously funny, is a must-see for anyone who knows what it is like to have a family.

Medium: Mixed
Dimensions: Variable

In today's environment, we are coping with transition from an industrial world to a post-industrial, electronic world. Transition is a form of communication that communicates difference. It is a fight for relevance and perhaps even towards shaping an identity. Transitions involve human complexities and are often exemplified by the behaviours of mystics, schizophrenics and artists. An artist's quest for difference is in fact a quest for integration. Some say it is supposed to promote a political agenda, or to be critical and rebellious, or even to transcend the social and political context in which it was made. Arts, for me, is a right-brain activity. It aims to integrate the unconscious and conscious processes, sometimes saving people by providing an experience of beauty. Style is a means to attract and sometimes elicit memories (from new insights into reality to the hypocrisies of the social order). Aesthetics are incidental to underlying expression.

The programme is a platform for original, exploratory and experimental work. Artists who perform under the programme do not have to pay rent for use of The Necessary Space. In addition, The Necessary Stage undertakes all administration, which includes publicity and licensing.

[names changed to protect the innocent] is a platform for experimental, exploratory and original work which aims to provide a space for artists, established or otherwise, to come together in the spirit of experimentation for dialogue amongst artists and between artists and audience.

Nine kids play in a playground, oblivious to the fact that their games mirror some of life's harshest realities. Their little fanciful ideas and colourful whims vanish when confronted with the prejudices that adulthood has to offer them.

Fighting is a play about the struggle for existence; a battle for one's personal identity through the spasmodic eyes of an 18 year-old retard or the mourning ones of a mother who has lost her son.