Night Parade of One Hundred Goblins

Art Gallery of New South Wales · January 2020

Co-presented by Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Festival and Clockfire Theatre Company. 

Devisor/Designer Tobhiyah Stone Feller

Nominated HLA Management Costume Design for a Live Performance or Event Award, 10th Anniversary APDG Awards - Night Parade of One Hundred Goblins

Nominated Creative Crunchers Design Collaboration for a Live Performance or Event Award, 10th Anniversary APDG Awards - Night Parade of One Hundred Goblins

In Japanese folklore, twilight is the time when the supernatural world awakens, everyday objects become enchanted and shapeshifters and trickster spirits take to the streets. Sydney’s absurdist innovators Clockfire Theatre Company unlock the ghostly realm that lurks alongside our own in Night Parade of One Hundred Goblins.

This highly physical theatre experience, propelled by live taiko drumming, brought the works in block-buster exhibition Japan supernatural to life in a fantastical, otherworldly procession. Following the performance the exhibition was filled with a heady soundtrack by Tokyo-based musician Eiko Ishibashi, composed especially for this Sydney Festival event, alongside the murmurings of kyōka, Japanese ‘mad poetry’ performed by the Clockfire ensemble.

Tobhiyah and Clockfire worked inventively with a palette of upcycled and everyday objects/clothing to devise a resourceful, surprising and mythical world for the production.

Night parade… is the latest in a series of innovative, highly physical theatre experiences from Clockfire, whose works include The Natural Conservatorium of Wise Women (Sydney Fringe Festival, 2019) and The Grief Parlour (Riverside Theatre, Parramatta).