2015
Birdcage Thursdays
Performer
Presented by La Mama Theatre and Big West Festival with project partner For the Crowded House
What is hoarding? Why can’t it just be ‘cleaned up’? Performed in the round in the shell of a house, belongings pile up as we witness an ageing mother resisting her adult daughter every step of the way towards an important inspection. Set to a physical rhythm of telephone calls, bird calls, lawn bowls and dance moves within a transforming interactive set, BIRDCAGE THURSDAYS is a theatrical journey which plumbs the complexities of hoarding from claustrophobia to frustration, hilarity, sadness, relief and back again. Selected performances will be followed with Q&A facilitated by Hoarding Education specialist Tania Reid from ‘For the Crowded House’, alongside the artists.
Artists
Sandra Fiona Long (writer), Caitlin Dullard (director), Joanne Mott (designer), Raya Slavin (sound designer), Rebecca Etchell (production manager), Genevieve Picot, Sophia Constantine and Sandra Fiona Long (performers)
Reviews of the work:
Theatre People
SYN
Presented by La Mama Theatre and Big West Festival with project partner For the Crowded House
What is hoarding? Why can’t it just be ‘cleaned up’? Performed in the round in the shell of a house, belongings pile up as we witness an ageing mother resisting her adult daughter every step of the way towards an important inspection. Set to a physical rhythm of telephone calls, bird calls, lawn bowls and dance moves within a transforming interactive set, BIRDCAGE THURSDAYS is a theatrical journey which plumbs the complexities of hoarding from claustrophobia to frustration, hilarity, sadness, relief and back again. Selected performances will be followed with Q&A facilitated by Hoarding Education specialist Tania Reid from ‘For the Crowded House’, alongside the artists.
Artists
Sandra Fiona Long (writer), Caitlin Dullard (director), Joanne Mott (designer), Raya Slavin (sound designer), Rebecca Etchell (production manager), Genevieve Picot, Sophia Constantine and Sandra Fiona Long (performers)
Reviews of the work:
Theatre People
SYN
Luminous Lunas
Dancer | Roving
Celebrating the beauty, complexities and contrasts of femininity is Luminous Lunas; an innovative series of site-specific performances, featuring abstract visual poetry, stories and myths about the Luna (moon), directed by Yumi Umiumare. Pop-up installations in different inner-city locations encourage surreal, provocative and fun audience experiences.
Presented at Federation Square Light in Winter Festival 2015 as part of VicHealth's Arts About Us project in Partnership with Platform Youth Theatre.
Presented at Mapping Melbourne 2015
Celebrating the beauty, complexities and contrasts of femininity is Luminous Lunas; an innovative series of site-specific performances, featuring abstract visual poetry, stories and myths about the Luna (moon), directed by Yumi Umiumare. Pop-up installations in different inner-city locations encourage surreal, provocative and fun audience experiences.
Presented at Federation Square Light in Winter Festival 2015 as part of VicHealth's Arts About Us project in Partnership with Platform Youth Theatre.
Presented at Mapping Melbourne 2015
Creative Pen Pals Presents...
Lead Artist
#OnlineCollaboration #FindAPenPal #Insider/Outsider #Geography
Artists from Darwin + artists from Melbourne + digitally devised process + 3 day open-to-public creative development = WIP showing at The Crack House.
Creative Pen Pals have embarked on a 5-month online journey together with artists from Darwin and Melbourne connecting through a creative online collaborative art making process. We are excited to finally meet in the flesh at Crack Theatre Festival at TINA. You are cordially invited to join us on the final frontier to unpack our discoveries, create content, mash together live and video art, share stories, connect with your very own Creative Pen Pal, and finally see ideas come to life at the Crack House on the final day of the Festival.
Partnership between Platform Youth Theatre and Corrugated Iron Youth Arts Lead Artists / Directors: Adam Drake and Sophia Constantine Performers: Dia Choi, Sandra Chui, Harley Hefford, Zoe Mitchell, Zoe Panjer, Angus Robson
Crack Theatre Festival
#OnlineCollaboration #FindAPenPal #Insider/Outsider #Geography
Artists from Darwin + artists from Melbourne + digitally devised process + 3 day open-to-public creative development = WIP showing at The Crack House.
Creative Pen Pals have embarked on a 5-month online journey together with artists from Darwin and Melbourne connecting through a creative online collaborative art making process. We are excited to finally meet in the flesh at Crack Theatre Festival at TINA. You are cordially invited to join us on the final frontier to unpack our discoveries, create content, mash together live and video art, share stories, connect with your very own Creative Pen Pal, and finally see ideas come to life at the Crack House on the final day of the Festival.
Partnership between Platform Youth Theatre and Corrugated Iron Youth Arts Lead Artists / Directors: Adam Drake and Sophia Constantine Performers: Dia Choi, Sandra Chui, Harley Hefford, Zoe Mitchell, Zoe Panjer, Angus Robson
Crack Theatre Festival
