What's on Donate {{ ::vm.cart_counter }} Cart
The Day I Left Home

The Day I Left Home - Melbourne Talam

25 February — 27 February 2016

Event Passed
Explore

POORNA: I could have taken the earlier train if I had walked faster. But I was enjoying the music … and you have to time it right. If you follow the beat of the city, your life never goes off-key.

Three young people see each other across a crowded Flagstaff station. They just missed the train. Now they wait. And think. They think about home (Punjab/Delhi/Hyderabad). And about how they just can’t seem to get Melbourne’s rhythm right. And of all the impossible things they must do to stay. And, their time is running out.

Cybec Electric is only possible due to the support of Dr Roger Riordan AM and The Cybec Foundation.

Rashma N. Kalsie

Rashma N. Kalsie

Alex Pinder

Alex Pinder

Sahil Saluja

Sahil Saluja

Sahil Saluja’s stage credits include Melbourne Talam, A Long Way Home (Melbourne Theatre Company); North Pool (Lab Theatre Company); Prehistoric (Elbow Room); The Way Out (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Emma’s House Special (Spare Productions). Sahil played Suresh in the feature film The Merger, from director Mark Grentell, and his TV credits include Jack Irish, Wentworth and Halifax: Retribution. In 2016, Sahil starred in his first major film production, The Colour of Darkness, which was written and directed by Girish Makwana and premiered at the 2016 Indian Film Festival Melbourne. For his work in Declan Furber Gillick's Bighouse Dreaming (directed by Mark Wilson), he and the cast won Best Performance and Best Ensemble respectively at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Green Room Awards. He toured in Anthem under the direction of Susie Dee, a collaboration from acclaimed writers Andrew Bovell, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius.

Current as of March 2023.

Rayesh Gunasekera

Rayesh Gunasekera

Suhasini Seelin

Suhasini Seelin