Performed in a large crash repair garage in Melbourne, The Cars that Ate Paris involved performer and musician as composer, utilising the improvisation skills of singers and instrumentalists to create vocal lines and accompaniment.

Based on Australian writer/director Peter Weir’s film of the same name, this macabre story is set in the small rural town of Paris where the inhabitants live off the proceeds of staged road accidents. As Arthur, the survivor of one such accident, overcomes his phobia of cars, we learn the gruesome truth ofthis gothic outback township.

Instrumentation sop., bar., ten., 2 actors, acrobat, pf., sampler, elec. vln., environmental perc.

“An imaginative and visually arresting piece of music theatre…"
THE AGE

1992 Nomination, Green Room Awards, Production in Opera

1992 Nomination, Green Room Awards, Direction in Opera

1992 Nomination, Green Room Awards, Set Design in Opera [Jacqueline Everitt]

1992 Nomination, Green Room Awards, Female Lead in Opera [Helen Noonan]

1992 Ensign Smash Repairs, Clifton Hill, Melbourne [July]