ARCHIMEDES WAR by Melissa Reeves. Directed by Susie Dee

What happens when our games are about war, and war is played like a game?

Fifteen-year-old Arki can’t shake the dead bodies of the players he’s killed in his online combat games. His mother takes him to a psychiatrist who thinks he has PTSD. In her quest to help her son, she turns to those involved in real world war afflictions.

ARCHIMEDES WAR is a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare, where waging war can look like a video game and playing video games has real-life consequences.

Director: Susie Dee
Writer: Melissa Reeves
Cast: Daniela Farinacci, Jim Russell, Sahil Saluja, Harry Musgrove, Jordan Fraser Trumble, Eva Seymour
Set and Costume: Romanie Harper & Bethany J Fellows
Video design: Romanie Harper
Lighting design: Lisa Mibus
Sound design / composition: Ian Moorhead
Production / Stage Manager: Cassandra Fumi

Image by Pia Johnson

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Archimedes War has been supported by the Australian Cultural Fund.