soma

MKA

Dates

2013

Set in a brave new world where a sophisticated, designer drug is now legal and prolilific.  SOMA is about a culture addicted to entertainment.

East Germany, 1967, a scientist discovers a drug that will make all anxiety disappear, and only happiness remain. With no side-effects, no after effects: it’s the perfect drug. 
It is Soma.

Fast-paced, shocking and surreal, the show was a return to exploring intersections of the post-dramatic, performance art, and music hall spectacle. Tonight show meets dream in this terrifying work of art.

The show featured electronic music by Manderson-Galvin and a Lynchian set+costume design by NIDA+VCA+National Art School alumni, painter/designer Soma Garner.

“Huxley’s superdrug is given a radical reinterpretation…
an almost vicious refusal to permit its audience to become bored”
B. Brooker – Marginalia 

“10pm… Soma… Perceptive social commentary”
E. Shaw – Adelaide Advertiser