The Waiting Room

Get ready for a unique and unrepeatable performance that unifies an audience of strangers in the spirit of play. 

Upon entering The Waiting Room you immediately ask: where’s the stage? The entire space is filled with rows of chairs. Sit where you will. From the outset, you are complicit in what happens next. As the performance begins to unfold, you are free to sit and watch or to join in and be seduced into collective play and scrutiny.  

Interactions occur, events take place and meaning accrues. These interactions are the engine of The Waiting Room, as the line between audience and performer fades as genuine in-the-moment exchanges shape each moment that follows. The stakes keep getting higher, until finally one person's wait is over and a grand solo is performed… by an audience member.  

Empowering and unpredictable, each show is idiosyncratic, site-specific and driven by a soundscape created live each night.  

What are we waiting for? Lunch? The dentist? A job interview? Judgement day? The end?  

The Waiting Room is a brilliant psychological experiment and surreal human study of what we do when there is nothing else to do. 

The Waiting Room is a brilliant psychological experiment and surreal human study of what we do when there is nothing else to do. 

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This is a Joondalup Festival event. To find out more, head to joondalupfestival.com.au 

For support, call 9400 4000 or email the City of Joondalup at [email protected]