Rambunctious Industries is the brainchild of Naomi Edwards and Megan Price, a partnership with a commitment to ground-breaking, energetic and unrestrained live performance.

Drawing on a ten year history of making theatre together, Melbourne-born theatre practitioners, director Naomi Edwards and writer Megan Price, formalised their partnership as Rambunctious Industries in May 2004. Together they are the creative force behind several diverse collaborative projects.

The first year of Rambunctious Industries was extraordinary.  Rambunctious Industries ran acting workshops for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Graduate Program, London, working with Jean Anouilh’s ANTIGONE. These workshops formed the genesis of the Agoraphobics Clinic, an ongoing actors ensemble working with an impulse approach to rehearsal.

Delving into the world of musical cabaret, Rambunctious Industries brought together Australian cabaret star and man diva Wes Snelling and British composer Ben Hillyard to collaborate on TRASH - a wild dramatic musical cabaret of global proportions about a man trapped in a bar on a delayed international flight. Melbourne audiences were the first to see this new show in April 2005, when it was previewed at the Kitten Club. TRASH then returned to Melbourne, bigger and better than ever, for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October 2005.  TRASH was awarded Best Musical in the Cabaret section of the Fringe Festival awards.

Also conceived in 2004 was the text based physical theatre piece OEDIPUS DNA, a show exploring the moral, social and personal implications of genetic technology. Weaving a young pregnant couple’s dilemmas and the Oedipus mythology, a chorus of scientists pose pertinent questions about the effect of modern science on our lives. Workshopped with actors from the Agoraphobics Clinic in January 2005, Megan and Naomi are now developing the material further for more workshops and performance in 2006.

2005 saw Rambunctious Industries become a truly international Australian theatre company, based in both London and Melbourne. With plans to create and tour across the hemispheres, Rambunctious Industries is a company to watch.

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