Oranges and Lemons

Oranges and Lemons is an immersive, sound-led performance work for three actors and musician, with text by playwright-performer Glace Chase and sound and music by 2025 Assemblage Artist in Residence, composer-performer Basil Hogios.

Three figures are trapped in an increasingly unstable web of intimacy, memory, and emotional dependency, shaped by the extraordinary musical sensitivity of its central character, whose inner world gradually begins to overwhelm the reality around them.

The piece is staged within Flinders’ 32-speaker ambisonic environment “The Cube” and Hogios and Chase are joined on stage by the 2026 Drama Centre International Visiting Artist Gerrard McArthur and Third Year student of the Bachelor of Performance – Acting, Oscar Baldwin, directed by Dr Christopher Hurrell.

Drawing on minimalist compositional structures, patterns of repetition and variation, and the unstable dynamics of memory and perception, the work places the audience inside an evolving sonic landscape that shifts fluidly around and through them. In this creative development presentation, Hogios performs the full score live, manipulating keyboard, electronics, and spatial diffusion in real time as the performers navigate a fractured and intimate dramaturgy shaped by pressure, rhythm, and proximity. The result is a hybrid theatrical and musical experience in which immersive sound actively constructs the emotional, psychological, and spatial world of the performance.

Glace Chase

Aussie American Glace Chase is a multiple award winning “trans-queen” / performer / playwright / comedienne / screenwriter / artiste. Glace has been there, done that in a career that defies easy categorization with Time Out NYC calling her “delightfully satanic” & the Sydney Morning Herald “an all fucking triumph”.

She wrote & starred in Sydney Theatre Company/Queensland Theatre Co’s hit play Triple X, earning rave reviews & nightly standing Ovations. Triple X was shortlisted for both the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and Nick Enright Prize.

Basil Hogios

Basil is a composer and sound designer working internationally in film, television, performing arts, album production and art installation. He has  collaborated extensively with leading Australian theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir Street, Bell Shakespeare,

and Griffin Theatre Company, as well as independent and Arts Festival hits. His contributions

encompass both music composition and sound design. He was the 2025 Assemblage Centre for Creative Practice Research Artist in Residence at Flinders University.

Gerrard McArthur

Gerrard McArthur is an internationally regarded actor, director, and teacher whose career spans major European theatre institutions, contemporary classics, and some of the most demanding heightened performance traditions in modern theatre. A longtime collaborator of playwright Howard Barker and Principal Artistic Associate of Barker’s company The Wrestling School, McArthur is widely recognised for his work on complex, language-driven performance. Gerrard is the 2026 Drama Centre International Visiting Artist, continuing an engagement with Adelaide’s theatre culture which began with his major role in the 2000 Adelaide Festival production of Barker’s eight-hour epic The Ecstatic Bible.

“The Cube”

The Cube at Flinders University, is the only ambisonic studio in South Australia. Ambisonic sound technology captures and recreates sound from all directions, creating an immersive listening experience. One of only a handful worldwide, The Cube is used by artists and researchers to develop immersive sound design projects. For Oranges and Lemons, The Cube has been located in the Flinders Drama Centre Rehearsal Room, facilitating experimental creative practice research into the integration of ambisonics and live performance.