Open City Open City is the creation of writer-performers Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter who developed an idiosyncratic performance style, at once informal and carefully crafted, intimate and epic in its handling of the politics of everyday life and issues such as photography, the senses, accidents and technology, the heterosexual couple, the male body and relations between cultures. In 1987 they created, in collaboration with composer Robert Lloyd, TOKYO/NOW/THRILLER, a response to their first trip to Japan. In 1988 the work was broadcast by ABC Radio as AUSTRALIA/JAPAN: A LOVE STORY and won the NSW Premier's Prize for Radio that year. In 1992, the reworked TOKYO 2 was performed in Sydney and Melbourne to considerable critical acclaim. "...a real pleasure to see the piece return...the wry wit and humour...the wonderful sense of what it is like to be a tourist in Japan." (Sydney Morning Herald) Open City is the publisher of the innovative arts journal, REALTIME