“The vehicle becomes a bubble, the dashboard a console, and the landscape all around unfolds as a television screen” – Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication

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Passenger is a theatre work, which places its audience inside a moving suburban bus. A conversation is heard between two fellow passengers and—as we gaze at the passing world outside—we are seduced into an altered understanding of the environment around us.

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Exploring our relationship to screen media and how it influences our interpretation of the world, Passenger framed Melbourne’s Docklands as a filmic landscape. It is the frontier of a market-driven economy – and the perfect setting for a modern-day Western.​ It referenced Western films where the cowboy seeks to ‘right’ a 'wrong' that the law cannot rectify. 

In a familiar conversational style, two strangers discuss the ethics of contemporary life before the female reveals her true identity and her intention to seek retribution. 

​The audience, engaged in a heightened 'searching' in the outside landscape as it passes by, are suddenly surrounded by a full filmic experience framed by the windows of the bus with an epic original soundtrack.

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This is an intriguing theatrical experience which leaves its audience tingling and alert.​