A phantasmagoric punk show from the twilight of global crisis from ‘Theatrical Saboteurs’ Doppelgängster.
A high-energy mixture of anarcho-punk, cheap illusions, and frenetic dialogue as two losers in a motel room eat snow cones, watch you via drone, and burn out a karaoke machine.
A kaleidoscopic examination of social atomisation, alienation, and misinformation – Cold War 2.0 is a living-wake redux of 2020’s ‘★★★★★ What the hell did we just watch?’ (Eventadelaide) Cold War, from the ‘Abhorrent, Embarrassing, and Dangerous’ (Herald Sun) ‘Dammit’ (The Music) ‘Wildly Experimental and Wildly Entertaining’ (Daily Review) team.
*Some audience members will be offered a snow cone.
on COLD WAR 2.0:
“Undeniable”
– Disrupting Stages [read more here]
“Anarchy at its finest…
An uneasy exhilarating punk throwdown”
– Artshub
“It is provocative, angry, engulfing,
excellently daring, & reckless theatre”
– Theatre Ins & Outs
“Anarchic, funny, and deliberately disorienting”
– Melbourne Stage Review
“I absolutely hated it”
– Theatre Thoughts
“It’s difficult to know
where the performance ends
and the paranoia begins”
– Artshub
“I love the fact it exists
and refuses to conform”
– Cultural Binge
CREATIVES
Concept: Doppelgangster
Devised and Performed by: Tobias Manderson-Galvin & Aquilla Sorensen
Originally Devised by: Tobias Manderson-Galvin & Dr Tom Payne
Sound Design: Jules Pascoe
Costume Collaboration: Chelsea Hickman
Further Text: Kerith Manderson-Galvin
Hero Image Photographer: Darren Gill
DATES
The Rocks, Fringe on the Rocks, Sydney, 2026
La Mama Theatre, Hope Punk Climate Festival, Melbourne, 2026
R&D
Sheffield Hallam University
Location 6-8 Atherden St, The Rocks
Photographer Ash Penin
