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Melbourne Festival and Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in association with PS122 Global present
PHOTO Andrew Schneider
NEW YORK NARRATIVES
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
ACTING STRANGER
ANDREW SCHNEIDER
Creator, Writer and Director
ANDREW SCHNEIDER
Acting Stranger is the evolving
document of an ongoing project
exploring intimacy, relationship and
the experience between strangers.
Andrew Schneider writes short
scenes—no exposition, no inciting
incident, no denouement—and
you are invited to participate. If
selected, you and Schneider enact
the short scenes in public. You do
not meet, discuss or experience
each other outside the context
of the scene. The experience is
documented and will be shown
at a free screening at ACMI.
For more information and to be
involved visit www.festival.melbourne/
actingstranger.
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Andrew’s Rules:
01. Memorise the script VERBATIM.
02. Show up on time.
03. Show up 15 minutes early if the
scene takes place in a mass–
transit venue.
04. The scene starts when you see
me. The camera will be rolling.
I will be standing in front of the
camera.
05. Say your first line, or wait for
me to say mine.
06. We will only meet as the
characters.
07. There is only one take.
08. There is no messing up.
09. Keep going.
10. The scene ends when the
camera is turned off.
11. We will not introduce ourselves
in real life.
12. You agree to have your likeness
videotaped and published
on-line.
Melbourne Festival’s free program of activities
proudly brought to you by the City of Melbourne.
SCREENING
TUE 20 OCTOBER at 6PM
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE
FOR THE MOVING IMAGE
Federation Square
Including introduction
by Andrew Schneider
FREE
MULTI-SCREEN INSTALLATION
ARTS HOUSE
NORTH MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
Watch scenes from Melbourne’s
Acting Stranger through interactive
monitors and a looped screening.
Visit website for more details.
FREE