Artistic Team 
Matt Prest, Clare Britton, Danny Egger, Eddie Sharp, James Brown, Jack Prest.

Artistic Policy
Led by Matt Prest, this nebulus collective come together with an interest in cross-form storytelling using performance, written text, puppetry, video, sound design and installation art to create immersive theatrical events.  Drawing influence from the combined histories of theatre, film, visual art, literature and music, the group aims to make original contemporary performance in an ongoing exploration of the live experience that is theatre.
   
Review Extracts: 
The Tent
"In the massive, partly flooded, unrenovated Bay 23 there’s a car roaring away and a tent into which we file, to be fed soup and witness a strange encounter embellished by projections, puppets and other magic in Matthew Prest’s The Tent, an oddly compelling deadpan piece of Australian gothic about male relationships, among other things." 
Realtime Magazine no.88, Dec-Jan, 2008.

"The Tent is an attractive mix of puppetry, surprise-packed set design, audio-visual sequences, music and rather genial, laid back live performance. True to its name, the show takes place in a large tent pitched at the back of the Federation Square car park. It's a tale of two unlikely friends - Michael, a directionless young man, and Brett, an eccentric philosopher - that takes in everything from how to butcher a cow to the metaphorical power of speculative physics."
The Age, Melbourne, May 2008.

Current Work
The Tent
An audience of 20 sit down inside an oddball tent, hand-built by the artists out of old truck canvas and scrap metal.  Handed a warm bowl of beef stew they're told the story of Michael and Brett through puppetry, video and performance. Brett is "like a guest character on Northern Exposure - a combination of the Unabomber and Bush Tucker Man," Prest says. "He's a contemporary philosopher who's dropped out of his job as a professor and chosen this alternative life. He's built the tent himself and gone off into the bush to live his own way and continue writing his PhD." Brett finds the young man Michael out in the bush and they end up living in the tent for about six months. The Tent charts their friendship, which comes unstuck over, of all things, a cow.
 
60 min, 2 on stage, 4 on the road, 25 audience, max 2 shows a day.

Future Work
Hole in the Wall
A theatrical inquiry into the violence and beauty of destruction.   The work will explore ‘acts of breaking’ as a means of change, of opening up new possibilities. Drawing from each artist’s skill base we plan to develop a piece that draws on the following elements: a love story; locating spirituality and ritual within secular Western contemporary society; domestic environments; magic realism; crowd control; zeitgeist; fictional autobiography; relating physical space to psychological space; confined vs expansive space.

Wrap Around
Artists talks, ‘behind the scenes’ technical tour.

Recent Tours
The Tent has been presented at Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Liveworks Festival, Performance Space, and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.

Works available for touring
The Tent