To gothicise is to turn towards these conditions and resonances, to tend to rather than shy away from the odorous wounds of history. Festering in the hot Australian sun, their continuous, gaping presence demands it.
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Requiem for A Black Summer
rituals helped me shroud this new work in the layers of grief that is resistant to the flows of time.
Sites of Violence / Collision and Composition
Caught within both the theatrical and the academic worlds, I have long been fascinated with the public lecture – its rhythm, its timbre and the frequency of facts
Threads of Home and Compositional Thinking
What if your home is not a building but a landscape? A river, a coastline, bush, forest, an ice field or desert.
‘Birdsong at Dusk’ – a Creative Director’s notes
Dusk traditionally presents a romantic palette, but given the current firestorms we are forced to confront a new kind of palette.
Female Artistic Directors / Lone but not alone
I have to say I have relished the autonomy and singularity of vision that being solo artistic director affords me.
Tracing 20 years.
Themes of despair, the desire for something better, the suffering of everyday life
Sites of Violence
Where the women become the non-human – the rivers, the coastlines, the Australian bush, an endangered species.
On the cusp at Gunyah
Abuse not experienced by many, but by all accounts, too many.
Stifters Dinge :: the strange sounds of the Anthropocene
What we might most broadly call theatre “animateurs” have been exceeding the limits of traditional dramaturgy since at least the late 60s