Already Elsewhere is set on the roof of a submerged house surrounded by grass – a time capsule of buried histories. Did the roof land there? Was the house buried? What disastrous event brought this about?

Seven people, seemingly unrelated, emerge on the scene each haunted by unexplainable events. A man obsessed by his role in a fatal accident…A woman bewildered by the sudden disappearance of her child…A young woman’s growing paranoia of everyday life…The guilty survivor ….why her and not her friends?The man who doesn’t trust anyone, anywhere…. he doesn’t even trust the dead.

The cast, made up of both actors and dancers, takes command of the show’s material with equal physical and theatrical skill negotiating the steep incline of the roof with fatalistic determination.The roof is multifaceted, at once benign and playful it also acts as a projection surface relaying images in real time that occur “out of sight” to the naked eye. Finally it erupts tile by tile as an explosive metaphor to a life lived in fear.

Already Elsewhere’s aesthetic pays homage to the work of renowned American photographer Gregory Crewdson. Ingeniously designed (both lighting and set) by Geoff Cobham, this intensely atmospheric work mixes idyllic suburban states with the heightened world of unexpected disaster.

With text by the acclaimed Sydney writer Brendan Cowell, sound and music composition by the versatile Paul Charlier and direction by resident artistic director/choreographer Kate Champion, Force Majeure has created a work of world class dance-theatre that doesn’t shy away from exploring the disturbing symptoms of our chronic post-September 11 state of fear.