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Wednesday, 28 September 2016

2.0 | Contact - Melbourne Fringe Festival review

Presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Human Project's 2.0 | Contact, is an exploration on what touch can be and mean to humans and how life could be without it. A highly physical experimental piece, it incorporates martial arts, dancing and some wrestling moments as an "outsider" dissects and analyses the state of physical touching.

With injury befalling one of the performers, the show has had to be restructured to work around the three remaining cast (Rosie Osmond, Ashton Sly and Joseph Lai) and you wouldn't be able to tell as the performance is seamless and feels like it has been just the three of them rehearsing all this time. This is a highly demanding show - both physically and mentally - but the training and effort the three have put in in getting this piece together is evident. With its minimalist set, staging and costumes there is nothing for the performers to hide behind and their every move and word is what has all of our attention.