He Dreamed a Train

“one of the most challenging and entirely engrossing new works you’ll see this year”
XS Entertainment

Writer: Margi Brown Ash

Director, set and video design: Benjamin Knapton

Sound: Travis Brown-Ash

Co-video: Nathan Sibthorp

Video system: Freddy Komp

Performers: Margi Brown Ash, Travis Brown-Ash

Set Build: Aaron Barton

Presented by Force of Circumstance and Nest Ensemble in partnership with Brisbane Powerhouse

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body

He Dreamed a Train was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

Thanks to Metro Arts

He Dreamed a Train is the semi-autobiographical story of a woman and her entrepreneurial brother as they face his premature death. After returning to the family’s home, the woman is taken into a world of bittersweet dreams and reminiscences. Here she must re-story her narratives of belonging, to reconcile relationships and create a new way forward.

He Dreamed a Train is staged in a realistic farmhouse, which is transformed by projection mapping into a dripping palette of memory and imaginings, guiding the woman towards the re-storying of her future, towards a new way of belonging.

Matilda Award Nominations

Best female actor in a leading role: Margi Brown Ash

Best male actor in a supporting role: Travis Ash

Best lighting design: Geoff Squires

Best sound design: Travis Ash

Best audio visual design: Nathan Sibthorpe & Ben Knapton

Best technical design: Ben Knapton, Nathan Sibthorpe & Freddy Komp

He Dreamed a Train

“one of the most challenging and entirely engrossing new works you’ll see this year” XS Entertainment

“one of the most challenging and entirely engrossing new works you’ll see this year”
XS Entertainment