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a profound and powerful play superbly acted Arts Hub
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The new show by kwento at KXT bAKEHOUSE is amazing and you need to see it ️️️️ Suzy Wrong
A must see for all Australian adults. This is diverse storytelling at its best. Theatre Travels
a two-hander of uncommon power, perception and nuance. Theatre Red
Perth, 2012.
Four years after migrating to Perth from the Philippines, aspiring primary school teacher Bhing works as a massage therapist. He struggles to reach a more satisfying life by regaining his teaching credentials and supporting his extended family, whilst working between clients.
Scott, a coal miner, arrives for his appointment, full of tension and unreasonable demands. Caught up in the gruelling cycle of the FIFO system, he faces a work culture that drills at his psyche.
Through a series of massage appointments, the two bring their polarising values and expectations of masculine friendship and intimacy to the forefront.
Through an inventive theatrical and musical language One Hour No Oil interrogates the dilemmas of people of colour working in the Australian service industry, toxic masculinity, mental health within the mining work culture and finding friendship with people we have been conditioned to hate.
Director Kenneth Moraleda with John Gomez Goodway, Shaw Cameron, Alec Steedman
This production contains strong language, haze, references to mental health, self-harm, racism, and misogyny.
Production Designer: Soham Apte Lighting Designer: Saint Clair Sound Designer: Zac Saric Composers: Zac Saric and Alec Steedman Costume Designer: Jessi Seymour Fight Coodinator: Tim Dashwood Stage Manager: Alex Liang Production Manager: Mollie Webb Assistant Director/Understudy: Thomas Loveluck Movement Director: Lauren Nalty
Production Manager: Mollie Webb Production Administrator: Roman Berry Producers: Kenneth Moraleda and Jordan Shea
presented by kwento