NEWPORT, VIC. — A celebration of life in all its stages, Prime Time interrogates the relationship between age, power, visibility, and value. This new intergenerational work challenges our assumptions and expectations about age and ageing.
Featuring a cast of 14, aged between 5 and 93, Prime Time forges new dialogues across generations through shared stories, perspectives, dance and sound.
Prime Time experiments with the intersections of theatre, dance, live and recorded text, sound composition and visual design.
Evolving since April 2023, Prime Time draws on multiple recorded interviews with community members in Melbourne’s West spanning 10 decades, four research workshops, and 170 community members to bring together a mix of professional and community performers and a crack creative team to create a brave new work in the spirit of authentic connection, shared story and play.
Born in a Taxi has received assistance for this project from the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and is supported by Hobsons Bay City Council through its Make it Happen Grants program.
This project has been Fringe Funded as part of Pulse, powered by the Hansen Little Foundation and supported by the Sherwood Family Foundation. It has also been made more accessible with support from Access Fringe.
Previous funding and support for the project have also been gratefully received from the City of Maribyrnong and Creative Victoria’s Go West Fund.
VENUE: The Substation, 1 Market St, Newport, Victoria.
DATES: Wednesday, October 14 to Saturday, October 17, 2026.
TICKETS:
Full $37.00
Concession $27.00
Hump Day Discount $27.75
Fringe Member Discount $27.75
Extra Applause $47.00
Black Tix $10.00
Group 4+ $27.00
A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking.
Babes in Arms allowed.
EVENT WARNING: Low Audience Interaction.
CONTENT WARNING: This show involves low lighting.
