About the show
A World on the Brink
A dictator seizes power. Society adjusts. But for how long?
From Singaporean playwright Joel Tan, No Particular Order paints a striking portrait of life under an unnamed oppressive regime. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, we witness the lives of bureaucrats, workers, artists, and lovers navigating the slow erosion of democracy. Some resist. Some conform. All must survive.
In an era of global uncertainty and creeping authoritarianism, No Particular Order feels chillingly relevant. Urgent and unforgettable, it questions whether power or empathy will define the future.
As history repeats itself, which side will you choose?
Award winning director and actor Nigel Turner-Carroll has always put an emphasis on creating new Australian work and taking this work abroad. Some of his credits include Director and Co-Creator of The Tap Pack North American tour and most recently featured on The West End after touring Berlin, Beijing and Edinburgh Fringe festival winning The Spirit of the Fringe Award and of course multiple Australian tours.
Writer and Director of Eireborne with seasons in Zurich and Hamburg and Australia. The Box Show Australian tour which also won Critics Pick at Sydney Fringe and toured China last year. Most recently Director and Co-Creator of all female drum sensation Drummer Queens which has toured Australian capital cities.
Nigel has also Directed and Co-Written production shows, among them are Gone Too Soon, Damn Good Divas (Mo Award winner for Best Production Show, nominated Best Tribute Show at the ACE Awards.) Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham’s cabaret, Twists and Turns (Winner-Best Cabaret and nominated Critics Choice Award Perth Fringe World), as well as his sequel show Under the Covers. Back to Bacharach, Starring Casey Donovan, Liza Meets Bassey and The Real Thing both for Monique Montez and Two Right Feet Featuring Tommy Egan, which travels to Edinburgh this year.
Joel Tan has written a cracker of a play. Even though it is set in a non-descript time or place, No Particular Order brings an added awareness to the place and time we live in now.
I hope within this play that covers over 40 different characters; we see the humanity within each of them. That we are reminded to see the humanity in ourselves, in the person sitting next to you right now, in the people you encounter through your day, in the people you don’t see, but are across the world that are in a less privileged place than we are in Australia.
When given all the power in the world, how would you use it? To help others or control them.
– Nigel Turner-Carroll
The Company
Cast in order of apperance
Actor: Ari Patrick Tjandra
Actor: Theo Clarke
Actor: Madeline Flood
Actor: Zahara Jithoo
Understudies
Amman Waraich
Grace Mantaj
Director: Nigel Turner-Carroll
Costume Designer: Amelie Brown
Lighting Designer: Thomas Howieson
Set/Props Designer: Isaac Valentine
Sound Designer: Arwen Davidson
Fight Choreographer: Troy Honeysett*
Voice Coach: Robert Maxwell
Assistant Director: Jason Forrest
Assistant Director: Louise Birgan
Production Stage Manager: Thomas Shepherd
Construction Manager: Nick Day**
Costume Supervisor: Jess Marshall
Costume Supervisor: Imahn Pholi
Props Supervisor: Liam Bate
Props Supervisor: Lauren Ward
Props Maker: Oliver Gregg
Props Maker: Emily Lilley
Deputy Stage Manager: Jay Cairns
Production Coordinator: Max Bradley
Head Electrician: Alegra (Reyn) Penrose
Costume Assistant Designer: Ella Seiffert
Costume Assistant Designer: Edward John
Set Assistant Designer: Brooke Bostock
Costume Assistant: Grace Miles
Costume Assistant: Teddy McRitchie
Costume Assistant: Maddie Pawlak
Costume Assistant: Ella Hall
Assistant Stage Manager: Bonnie Ranger
Assistant Stage Manager: Lily Wooding
Set Construction Assistant: Charles Webster
Set Design Assistant: Carmi Pirola
Props Assistant: Eli Lackey
Props Assistant: Lily Burn
Props Assistant: Zoe Anderson
Floor Electrician: Emily Stewart
Sound Assistant: Oliver Ceely
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator: Alegra (Reyn) Penrose
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator: Lily Wooding
Key
*Guest Artist
** NIDA Staff