LRT Night of MOURNING
A night of irreverent grief and joyful reckoning
SATURDAY 21 JUNE
6.30PM – 10.30PM
FOREST LODGE HOTEL
Free pizza. Free wings. Free fall into feeling.
After 25 wild, beautiful, and often ridiculous years, Living Room Theatre invites you to an evening that is both a goodbye and a beginning.
We’re calling it LRT Night of MOURNING - Not just for what we’ve lost, but for what the world is losing right now. A night to laugh, to grieve, and to sit in the discomfort of not having the answers.
We’ll start light with games, chaos, our beloved MC, but as the night unfolds, we shift the tone. We’ll honour those lost to violence with a special musical performance. We’ll reflect, rage, and reckon with what comes next.
Because sometimes, you need to be uncomfortable to make change.
Expect candlelight, black attire, and a room charged with meaning. We’ll talk about what’s next for LRT, unveil exciting surprises, and invite you to be part of our future.
And in true LRT style, it’ll be a bit mad, wildly warm, and deeply human.
We kindly ask everyone to dress in black.
This is a funeral. And a party. And a protest. And a homecoming.
LRT Night of MOURNING
featuring Alex Tucker & Daniel Raymond
Alex Tucker and Daniel Raymond are two improvising drummers that have created an original language as a drumset duo. Their experimental approach to the instrument has allowed them to create new areas of sound that explore the sonic, textural, and rhythmic possibilities of two drumsets playing together. Following on from their debut release as a duo, ‘Drum Sonata No. 1,’ Alex and Daniel are developing more material as a duo and in their own solo drumset practice pushing their technical ability and creating unique systems of patterning and rhythmic organisation.
Alex and Daniel form part of the OSTINATO artistic team.
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“No country in the world has cracked the problem of violence against women and children. With courage, Australia could be the first.” – Jess Hill, The Quarterly Essay
As of 29 May 2025, 31 women in Australia have been killed by a person they knew.
We are failing.
For 25 years, The Living Room Theatre has created visceral, boundary-pushing work that speaks to suffering, silencing, and survival. Now, as part of our 25th anniversary, we bring you Ostinato — a solo performance with chamber ensemble that asks:
How do we listen to violence?
What lies beyond the limits of language?
What systems keep women silent — and who do they serve? Ostinato is not a story of individual trauma. It’s a reckoning — an invitation to feel, not just hear, what we often refuse to acknowledge.
This is art as protest. Sound as resistance. Performance as prevention.
Your donation will directly support the development of Ostinato:
Artist and composer fees
Rehearsals and creative development
Production and sound design