This poetic reflection combines text, physicality, new media and sound to enter a surreal world of altered minds and changing bodies.

In this moving and humorous performance, Kantanka looks to the future. Frailty, isolation, memory loss, fragile new friendships, the comfort of a woollen wrap. Your twilight years in a nursing home? It is not for everyone.

Missing the Bus to David Jones was developed by Theatre Kantanka through a series of residencies in nursing homes across Sydney in 2008. They came face to face with the daily routines of those living in care. In many ways there was a common response to the ensemble being there. The people the performers met, often vulnerable and institutionalized, came alive when their stories were listened to.

Kantanka immersed themselves into this surreal world of altered minds and changed bodies; a world that is at times brutal, sad, sometimes humorous and above all, very human. This world provided a space for reflection, on the nature of ageing, and on what it is to be human. Missing the Bus to David Jones is provoked by this hidden universe, where memories and bodies clash with reality, time and perception.

This new work is an interdisciplinary performance engaging cross-cultural artists from diverse backgrounds and art forms. The performance of Missing the Bus to David Jones fuses text and physicality devised by performers Valerie Berry, Kym Vercoe, Arky Michael, Katia Molino, Rosie Lalevich and Phillip Mills. The multi-media work of Joanne Saad and the lighting design of Sydney Bouhaniche enhance the surreal landscape of the piece, together with a soundscape by Nick Wishart. Director Carlos Gomes fuses these elements with sensitivity and precision to create a haunting visual and physical performance.

Missing the Bus to David Jones was received with an astonishing outpouring of positive reactions, by audience and critics alike.

In an age when ageing is the new challenge, Missing the Bus to David Jones is a work that confronts and entertains its audience.