/52 min. / Documentary
/2000 / Australia
- contains adult material -

“Everything we do comes out of our minds and our hearts”. Sonia Teuben

Mark Deans, Rita Halabarek and Sonia Teuben are full-time professional actors and writers with Geelong’s Back to Back Theatre. Each of them has intellectual disabilities.

Mark is a brilliant silent clown who worships the now-defunct Fitzroy Football Club. Every lunchtime at work he re-reads the script of the Blue Heelers episode he once appeared in.

Rita is a diva, a sexy glamour queen that inhabits a bizarre fantasy world of mermaids and monsters. She writes all her own lines at Back to Back and always likes to play the lead.

Sonia ran away from home and a violent childhood at the age of seventeen. At about the same time she discovered not only was she gay, but that she had a very forthright talent for performing – at Back to Back when asked to create her own puppet for one particular show she chose a talking vagina.

Out Of Our Minds is an intimate character study of Mark, Rita and Sonia, tracing the connections between their lives and their art, and following them as they rehearse their latest show, a huge outdoor spectacular performed on a football field over in Geelong.

David Carlin - director

Mish Armstrong - producer