Birgit Schreyer Duarte/Alice Lo (Mural by Alex Bacon)

Through ASL, spoken English and physical storytelling, this housing-market drama and ghost story explores the urban housing crisis and the politics of communication. Join neighbours Zoey, Trisha, and the ghosts of their dilapidated building, as they struggle to reclaim their home.

Set in a historic building targeted for luxury redevelopment, Heritage Building in Prime Location follows the last remaining tenants as they resist a profit-driven landlord determined to displace them.

As unexpected connections emerge through shared sensory experience, the building itself becomes a site of resistance. Centring questions of language, power, displacement and coexistence, the work examines what it means to remain, communicate and survive amid social and architectural gentrification.

Disruptive and at times disorienting, this multi-perspective work is not simply watched—it is felt, as the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to blur.

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Company: storm&stress / 1s1 Theatre
Playwright: Raphaela Bardutzky
Creator & ASL Translator: Dawn Jani Birley
Co-Director: MoMo Holt
Co-Director & German-English Translator: Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Performers: Dawn Jani Birley, David Jansen & Hilary Wheeler
Composer, DJ & Sound Designer: David Ariza
Set & Costume Designer: Amanda Wong
Lighting & Projection Designer: Nicole Eun-Ju Bell
Stage Manager: Sally Roberts
Producer for 1s1 Theatre: Meredith Potter