The Ends of Things

Premiere 20 October, 2000

'The Ends of Things' is based around a central character whose life, as he understands it, is drawing to a close. His world is reduced to a small room from which he continues his mundane daily activities with painstaking, fastidious monotony, remembering in fragments, the life that is behind him. These scenes of regret and missed opportunities are represented by three dancers who eventually encroach upon his world, collapsing the boundaries between reason and chaos, and consigning him to the borderless expanse of the stage and beyond.

The Ends of Things (for Jad McAdam) premiered as part of the Melbourne International Festival at the National Theatre, Melbourne Australia

Choreography:

Lucy Guerin

Cast:

Ros Warby
Brett Daffy
Stephanie Lake
Trevor Patrick

Collaborators:

Original Score: Franc Tetaz
Lighting: Margie Medlin
Set/Costumes: Dorotka Sapinska

Responses:

'In this work Guerin demonstrates both depth and complexity, using current styles of movement, sound and design to reflect on deeper social issues"

HILARY CRAMPTON, THE AGE, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 23, 2000

'...crisply delineated choreography which expresses multi-layered concepts'

JILL SYKES, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 31, 2000

'...one of the finest pieces of contemporary dance, local or imported seen here for a long time.'

NEIL JILLETT, THE SUNDAY AGE, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 29, 2000