NO PLACE LIKE
Forum Theatre created by Milk Crate Theatre
Riverside Theatres Parramatta
“Not every house is a home and not every home is one you feel safe in…..”
Photography: Heidrun Lohr
The Team:
Cristabel Sved – Director
Cherie Barnes – Assistant Director (Mentorship)
Beck Ronkson – Lead- Facilitator
Goldele Rayment – Co-Facilitator
Cat Davies – Performer
Owen Gill – Performer
Graeme Rhodes – Performer
Tim Tari – Performer
Rach Williams – Performer and Collaborator
Anita Canning – Collaborator
Maree Freeman – Playwright
Eugenia Langley – Collaborator
Matthius Nudl – Collaborator
Pauline Trenerry – Collaborator
Fraser Orford – Stage Manager
Lisa Walton – Project Manager
Photography – Patrick Boland
Videography – Cindy Rodrogeuz
No Place Like was inspired by the real life housing experiences of the Milk Crate
Theatre Artists, exploring the triumphs and challenges of finding a home. Through
interactive Forum Theatre, No Place Like examines issues of safety, discrimination
and self-determination.
The play focused on the issues of violence, mental health, domestic violence,
sleeping rough, social isolation, discrimination, drug and alcohol use and
disengagement.
Milk Crate Theatre invited audiences out of their seats and into the production to
take an active role in contributing ideas about the issues presented in the show.
Working from a Boal inspired Forum Theatre model, No Place Like, involves active
audience participation and community problem solving. The stories told in No Place
Like were generated by the Milk Crate Theatre performers, a group of artists who
have the lived experience of homelessness or are at risk of experiencing
homelessness.
The performance was toured to community partner locations and performed for their
communities. It was then performed to schools groups at The Riverside Theatres in
Parramatta.