Director Brandon Armstrong, and choreographer Jessica Pascoe, have orchestrated an ensemble of players in Dredge to evoke suggestions of our lives and conduct within a community.
The performance piece set mostly against a musical backdrop (Jack Burmeister, Hyacinth Makka) is open to interpretation allowing members of an audience the opportunity to read in to and interpret what is most salient Set around a well, the presence of water might suggest life given there are moments of grace and renewal. Equally, there are strident moments of violence and aggression. Each, in turn, suggest possible interactions within a community and individuals where collaboration meets the countervailing force of disaffiliation.
One particular moment in the fifty minutes that resonated was when clichéd lines from movies were called out speaking to the tropes, assumptions and tiredness of some of our aspirations and ideals that are derived from and promoted in movies.
The performance piece was developed by Femmural with support from The Anchor Theatre Company. They have created, ostensibly through movement and physical imagery, suggestions of the forces that shape, influence and determine our lives with the associated emotional landscape in the gestures, movements and sound.
There is an abstraction that an audience can engage with, a message that is open to negotiation and a physicality that can overwhelm but all provide the potential for audiences to examine their own understanding of the beauty and the questionable within each and every community.

• Review by David McLean