Imagine the world with a population of only 600 individuals. It might seem a quaint notion now that there are 7 billion of us occupying Earth, but 180,000 years ago, it really happened: humans nearly went extinct.
CUNCRETE / Rachael Clerke & The Great White Males
MY WORLD HAS EXPLODED A LITTLE BIT / Natural Shocks
HOW WE LOST IT / Cheap Date Dance Company
Three sets of clothes are laid out on the floor. Three women walk out on to the stage in their underwear and proceed to dress in an exaggerated choreographed manner. We are being lured, reeled in, played. Within this act of dressing, concealing - the subtlety of provocation is disarming - but then, this isn’t like a traditional kiss and tell, teen angst trauma fest or misery memoir.
THIS IS YOUR FUTURE / Lynn Ruth Miller
Lynn Ruth Miller is 82, and she's been doing stand-up for 12 years. The focus of This is Your Future is ageing, and it features faulty hearing aids, fractured limbs, replacement hips, mammograms and colonoscopies. It also discusses the joys and perils of geriatric dating – google it and you'll find a range of websites aimed at 'senior singles', although Miller suggests the obituaries are a good place to find out who's newly available.