UMBER productions

Risk is a contemporary genre piece, a thriller with specific horror references, located in a landscape which we all know and past which we have all driven, a place in which isolation enfolds you in seconds, and threat can appear in an instant. At the heart of this landscape, is the flight of a youth from his violent and dislocated family, a flight achieved by fantasy, by the creation of another persona for himself: scion of the legendary Kellys.

Over the course of a single night, though, this young man is forced to examine the usefulness of his fantastic ‘history’, and eventually leave behind the beliefs and survival tools of his childhood and move on to the more complex, more difficult choices of an adult world. The play gives us a protagonist who has arrived at a cross-roads – a place in his life where it is necessary to leave behind the old histories and find new ways of understanding the path ahead, and oneself on it. A vital issue in a country awakening to the notion that the past no longer provides the answers that it had.

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS
Brisbane Powehouse
Kruger Enterprises
Ernst & Young
Phorm Interiors
Nelson Molloy