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Penny Barron

Penny Barron

Co-Artistic Director, performer and director of Melbourne physical theatre company Born in a Taxi; creator of the intergenerational work Prime Time (Melbourne Fringe 2026).

Oct 3, 2026

5:52
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5:52
in that terms of, um, any one of us would lead a project, follow a project, support a project, uh, share even the running of the business.
6:01
Because I- You know, I think how we've managed to be independent is that we've managed to make money together and that's a really interesting kind of thing to bring into a conversation actually, because when you've grown up as arts practitioners and, uh, you know, many years ago it was a lot cheaper to live and it was a lot cheaper to make art.
6:24
Um-
7:55
It's not entirely people plucked from the, from the public domain.
8:01
No. It's a mix of professional and community performers, and, and it's probably worth saying that how we work now is we work with a pool of maybe up to 30 or so performers, um, creative, you know, sound people, lights.
8:17
Like, how we have remained Taxi is now the people we work with are just a wider pool, but aren't really part of that carrying the, the whole running of the company.
DavidHOST
12:33
And how do you take it? How does the performance unfold?
12:37
Well, it's a very physical theatre work.
12:41
And so part of the work is through movement and choreography that, again, is scored.
12:50
Some of it's set, but some of it's improvised.
12:53
But it's like we've structured the work so there's a sound design.
12:58
There's a beautiful design.
12:59
The whole room is one big yellow room.
14:34
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