The Nightline

You're led into a dimly-lit room full of tables for one. Before you is an old telephone and switchboard. This is your direct connection to The Nightline — hundreds of real-life anonymous voice messages left by shift-workers, insomniacs, truck drivers, prank callers, emergency workers, new parents, revellers and all manner of fellow night owls. You eavesdrop on intimate confessions, angry rants, musical serenades, pranks and laments, using your switchboard to change channels at will. But there is a ghost in the machine. The audience is plunged into the loneliest hours of the night, through a hallucinogenic dream scape, emerging out the other side having been initiated into this invisible, big-hearted community. Created by Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott, with collaborators, The Nightline explores themes of loneliness and connection. Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.