Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again
DARWIN

An ode to the planet, a call to attention, Darwin’s young people lead Darwin Fringe audiences on an interactive performance adventure through the George Brown Botanic Gardens.

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Following an award-winning premiere season in Melbourne, Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again comes to life afresh in a collaboration between two of Australia’s leading youth theatre companies, St Martins and Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, reimagined with over 50 of Darwin’s children, young people, and artists. 

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In Gene Tree, young people ask ‘impossible questions’ about evolution, adaptation and hope. Audiences are invited into small moments: feet on the grass, back against a tree, face in the wind. Music, rhythm and projections interlace with children’s stories of connection to nature, adaptation and change. Featuring Corrugated Iron’s Company C, students from Ludmilla Primary School, and Darwin Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists, Gene Tree immerses audiences inside a chorus of children’s voices, dreaming futures together within the nooks and crannies of the Gardens.

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Darwin Fringe is the first stop on St Martins’ concept tour for Gene Tree, which enables young people to adapt and evolve the show with their own words, stories, melodies, rhythms and ideas and share it their own communities, in their own place of nature — a living, growing performance experience tracing pathways of care and connection across our planet