The Neighbourhood

A companion piece to La Boite’s critically acclaimed 2017 offering The Village, The Neighbourhood was an intimate story-telling experience that transported audiences across countries, borders, and oceans in search of a home; all from within the walls of the Roundhouse Theatre.

The revelatory work tracked seven individual, real-life journeys from the experience of fleeing homelands, to seeking refuge and creating, fostering and discovering a new community (or neighbourhood) in Australia.

The Neighbourhood offered an evening of honest, authentic, and deeply moving theatre, imbued with a sense of hope, power and recognition. Written and co-created by the story-tellers themselves, The Neighbourhood traversed a range of story-telling forms to examine the concept of home and the vital importance of belonging. The Neighbourhood was co-created with Todd MacDonald, Aleea Monsour and Ari Palani with an ensemble of seven local story-tellers.