Relive the moving and inspirational true stories of life in quarantine. Defiance, Q Station's powerful immersion theatre production, takes you on an extraordinary journey through the lives of the people who worked or were interned at the former Quarantine Station as they battled against one of mankind's greatest enemies, disease.
As the audience of an 'immersion' theatre production, you become part of the experience of Defiance. Seated inside the original buildings where the events depicted actually took place, the actors close enough to touch, Defiance becomes a totally engaging and immensely personal theatre experience.
Theatrical productions all over the world go to great lengths to build sets to recreate historic environments but at Q Station the buildings on site are where it all really happened.
Using the very latest special effects technology, Defiance fires the imagination and brings each story, each character vividly to life in a poignant and unique way.
Defiance is a moving and thought-provoking theatrical encounter and definitely one of Sydney's 'must do' experiences.
the production
Act 1 takes place in the former laundry and starts in 1881, when Sydney was crippled by Smallpox epidemic. The Quarantine Station was quickly over crowded and order broke down. Public outcry and pressure from the newspapers forced the governor to call for a Royal Commission.
Benjamin Hackett, the Superintendent of the time, ran the Station like a prison rather than a hospital. John, Sarah Wilson and their six children are wrongly quarantined. read more...
the people of defiance
Carlton Lamb
Producer, Director & Co-writer
Carlton wrote, directed, filmed and edited 'The Passionate Pursuit' for ABC television. He also wrote and directed 'My Bruvar is so God', a major event for the
festival of Sydney. Carlton was the concept designer for a computer program that won a British Academy Award and other international awards. He was the creative director a
nd consultant for the 'Customers of the Future'. This internationally acclaimed research paper explored leading edge creative techniques to design information and
communication technologies for the future. He began Carlton Lamb Productions in 2002. read more...
