The Melbourne Town Players' Attract/Repel is a visually and aurally stunning new work that takes no prisoners as it peels back the layers of perception, misconception and how we see the world.

In the second work by Melbourne's most fearless new theatre company, director Ming-Zhu Hii (Sandwiches, Two, Y.) goes beyond the pale, taking the audience on a raw, honest and deeply insightful journey into racial identification, discrimination, and the darkness and light inherent in Australia's many-cultured society.

Choreographed movement, in repsonse to the extraordinary lighting and sound, explores the potency of colour as an expression of the internal worlds of the attractive and the repellant; the attracted and the repelled.

The verbal component of the piece amounts to what can only be described as an interrogation. What begins as an entertaining and seemingly benign question and answer sequence onstage, slowly but inexorably turns the interrogator's light on us all, and takes an unflinching look at who we are, how we really behave, and what it means to be an Australian. Central to the work is the not-so-rhetorical question, 'How racist are you?'