Police badge, check. Holster and gun, check. Donuts, check.
Bingo Unit is not your usual theatre show which is exactly what spiked Rebecca Hurd’s curiosity when she heard about it. The Sydneysider couldn’t wait to get involved when Team Mess performed Bingo Unit in New South Wales last year.
Bingo Unit is an interactive, multimedia police drama experience, inviting you to put on your acting shoes and explore your inner good or bad cop.
Team Mess will be shooting iconic scenes in South Australia – which will be screened during the stage performance of Bingo Unit – around the Riverland from 14-16 July and Mt Gambier from 17-19 July 2014.
Rebecca, 20, said everyone had a ball getting in front and behind the camera. From little kids to those in their 60s, every participant got into the spirit of the event. Rebecca took on a few roles, behind and in front of the camera. “It was actually really good fun in terms of being able to perform,” she said.
“You don’t know what’s going to happen; it’s exciting to be part of the scene. You get a sense of what it is like to be a cop…it leads to a lot of great one-liners. On the other side of the camera, it’s great to know what is going to happen and funny to see the performers struggle in piecing the information together.”
The stage performance of Bingo Unit is a Warner Brothers style behind-the-scenes tour where the footage participants have helped create is screened as part of the interactive show.
During the filming you will be fuelled will donuts and coffee and get the chance to live out your favourite cop clichés with plenty of guns, line ups, interrogations, twists and turns which lead to the dramatic courtroom finale in the stage show – where there will be more donuts and coffee.
Would Rebecca recommend it? “Definitely, 100 per cent. I ended up bringing some of my friends and they loved it.”
WHEN ARE WE FILMING
Team Mess will be shooting iconic scenes for the stage performance of Bingo Unit around the Riverland from 14-16 July and Mt Gambier from 17-19 July.
THE STAGE PERFOMANCE
See yourself on screen as part of the Bingo Unit stage performance at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre on Tue 22 July & Wed 23 July and the Chaffey Theatre on Fri 25 & Sat 26 July.
For more information about Bingo Unit email [email protected] or to get involved fill out a REGISTRATION FORM HERE.
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