WOrld problems

Performed with vivid physicality by Carly Sheppard

World Problems is both comical and terrifying, gripping and cathartic. A solo time capsule catapulting across the ages, it seamlessly merges the most private and intimate reflections with a world-spanning perspective.

A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of us. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins?

An elegy for the future we’re yet to inherit, World Problems is both comical and terrifying, gripping and cathartic. A solo time capsule catapulting across the ages, it seamlessly merges the most private and intimate reflections with a world-spanning perspective.

WINNER: GREENROOM AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITING

“At once reflective, and genuine” - Daily Review

CHASE

Created by Kamarra Bell-Wykes and Carly Sheppard

Meet Chase. She’s living her best life.

Compelling, repelling, and funny, Chase sifts through the weeds of contemporary culture with a handy cam and her YouTube subscribers for company.

If only Chase understood half of what she helps others discover.

Carly Sheppard has been developing and performing the character of Chase for nearly a decade. A macro metaphor of our colonial shame, Chase is equally offensive to theatregoers from every walk of life. But therein lies her power. Chase is a mirror back to Australia.

Meet Chase. You just might see yourself.

Equally offensive and endearing to theatregoers from every walk of life, Carly Sheppard has been developing and performing the character of Chase for nearly a decade. Now she joins forces with Kamarra Bell-Wykes (A Daylight Connection) to deliver the most over-the-top, cracked version of Chase yet.

A NIGHTIME TRAVESTY

Commissioned by YIRRAMBOI.

Created by Kamarra Bell-Wykes and Carly Sheppard

Final boarding call for the last fleet.

A NIGHTIME TRAVESTY is an original new work by A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION. Join our motley crew as they venture out into the ether for an absurd, variety-night extravaganza that pushes form, genre and the realms of reality.

A NIGHTIME TRAVESTY is a perpetual party floating somewhere in our neglected psyche.

Fueled by human body parts, an open bar and a live band, leading independent artists Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Carly Sheppard, smallsound, with special guests Ritchie Brownlee and Death, join forces once again for their second major work as A DAYLIGHT COLLECTION.

The crazier shit gets, the more sense it makes.

This event is 18+

showreel

A collection of Carly’s work in performance and choreography 2014-2022.

Based in Melbourne, Carly Sheppard is an Indigenous dancer and choreographer descending from the Wallangamma and Takalaka peoples of North QLD. After studying at NAISDA Dance College and the Victorian College of the Arts, Carly has been training and working professionally in the dance industry for over fifteen years.