Patalog Theatre Co. is a Melbourne / Narrm based Independent Theatre Company launched in 2017 by Artistic Director, Ben Walter.
Patalog Theatre is committed to presenting unequivocally truthful and challenging work. Through this commitment to truthful story-telling, we hope to energise younger artists and audiences with theatrical expression.
As a young company we feel as though there has never been a more appropriate time to confront the unsettling truths of the world. As anxieties around the globe intensify daily, the pressure on the future generations to pick up the pieces and forge onward similarly increases. We hope that the act of play making, and overcoming the associated challenges it presents will continue to reaffirm the importance of theatre in our lives and culture.
We have been inspired by the example of companies such as Hayloft Project and MKA in Melbourne specifically, and more broadly The Royal Court Theatre abroad. To that end, Ben Walter is currently on placement as a Trainee Producer at the Royal Court in London and hopes to continue to develop the Patalog brand in years to come.
As we continue to bring challenging and urgent work to Melbourne audiences, we hope to herald and lead the next generation of youthful revitalisation of the sector.
Theatre is for you and me to sit down and acknowledge that we are in the same world, and that there are f*cking serious f*cking structural issues with that world. And that somehow, given all the other technologies at our disposal, it is still important to sit down, for our psychological health to sit down and look each other in the eye and have a little think about that. Also it should be entertaining. There should be jokes in it and if you write a few songs and put them in the show then that’s f*cking great too.
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CHRIS THORPE for The Royal Court Playwright's Podcast
"Patalog Theatre may be the most stylish and enterprising indie theatre company to come out of Melbourne since The Hayloft Project."
CAMERON WOODHEAD, The Age