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Production still for "The Plague Dances". Photographer: Jeff Busby
The Plague Dances
By Mat Diafos Sweeney, Sebastian Peters-Lazaro & Jesse Rasmussen
14 April 2012 – 06 May 2012 Tower Theatre
Created by Four Larks and written with Marcel Dorney
Malthouse Theatre, Four Larks,
Theatre Dance Collaboration
The phenomenon of dancing mania has left a mysterious trail through history – entire communities infected with a spontaneous urge to dance until they literally drop. It’s suicide with a backbeat, but what’s behind these lethal outbreaks? The devil’s drumming or religious ecstasy? Neurological decay or otherworldly arrival? A riot of motion and mayhem that spans from medieval rites to modern day marathons of mass movement, The Plague Dances is a dance of death with a contagious undercurrent.
Cast
Creatives
![Marcel Dorney](/media/q4mduttb/dorney-marcel.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763236881600000)
Writer
![Tom Willis](/media/gitl415m/willis-tom.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763243958400000)
Lighting Designer
![Lisette Drew](/media/1vqll453/drew-lisette.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763236915870000)
Stage Manager
![Ellen Strasser](/media/rh2nkzoh/strasser-ellen.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763242825100000)
Set Designer, Costume Designer
Acknowledgements
Presented by Malthouse Theatre & Four Larks.