Hit Me and The Red Room are two separate solo performances responding to ideas surrounding watching and being watched. Where does the desire come from to place yourself on display on the stage, Internet and in daily life? What is it to look? What is it to be looked at? Hit Me and The Red Room are the first solo performances by Frank Mainoo and Malcolm Whittaker, a pair of “refreshing and a welcome additions to Australia’s visual and experimental theatre scene”.

Frank Mainoo in Hit Me observes the obsessive idea of filming private spaces for screening in public spheres and turns this obsession into a short performance. Frank overstays his unwarranted fifteen minutes of fame as he dances till exhaustion the choreography found in popular You Tube videos. In doing so Frank makes his own home movie out of others home movies, combining multimedia and physical movement in a performance that is both absurdly funny and a strangely captivating examination of our contemporary age.

The Red Room by Malcolm Whittaker has been created as a space to revel with audience members in the fears of our unexplainable dreams and desires. In The Red Room a solo performance is longing to and resistant to take place. It's a dance between the desire for the spotlight and to hide in the black hole at its edge. A dance between the dream of one's self and another. The Red Room promises to be a “highly engaging and genuinely exciting form of visual theatre” from a young performer that is a “curious and engaging mixture of awkward vulnerability, measured anxiety and playfulness with an ‘anything-is-possible’ attitude”.

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