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Hoods premierCommissioned by Sydney Opera House and Regional Arts Victoria. KYLE: Wish I was an Xbox wish I was. It’s Friday, KFC night and the last days of school before Christmas. Kyle, Jessie and baby brother Troy are waiting in the car for their mum. Kyle broods in the front seat with visions of Sony Playstation dancing in his head while Jessie begs him for a game of eye spy. As night closes in, the shopping centre shuts down, their mum still hasn’t come back and the baby just won’t stop crying. |
Jodie Le Vesconte and Janinie Matthews. Photo by Stephen Henry |
Children of the Black SkirtAuspiced by Queensland Theatre Company. Come Out Festival Adelaide, Sydney Opera House, RAV Regional Tour 2005. Three lost children stumble across an abandoned orphanage in the bush. They become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits from the past. They are tormented, too, by the Black Skirt, a cruel governess who floats up and down the orphanage corridors wielding enormous scissors. But as the stories of these forgotten children are told— from pick pocketing incidents in the eighteenth century to the tragedies of the Stolen Generations in the twentieth— their spirits are released, one by one. |
Kellie Lazarus, Fiona Doyle and Mark Connaghan. Photo by Stephen Henry |
The Orphanage ProjectQueensland Theatre Company, Brisbane 2003 The Orphanage Project is an epic gothic fairytale, told in a mythical, timeless Australian orphanage. |
Laurel Collins and Marc Richards. |
Kingswood KidsLa Boite Theatre Energex Brisbane Festival, Brisbane 2002. It’s Friday, KFC night and the last days of school before Christmas. Kyle, Jessie and baby brother Troy are waiting in the car for their mum. Kyle broods in the front seat with visions of Sony Play Station dancing in his head while Jessie begs him for a game of eye spy and a trip to the toilet to pee. As night closes in, the shopping centre shuts down, their mum still hasn’t come and the baby just won’t stop crying. |
Jodie Le Vesconte. Photo by Suzi Fuks |
Princess of SuburbiaMagdalena Australia, Visy Theatre, Powerhouse, Brisbane 2003 A woman is alone in deep suburbia. In her state of depression she finds companionship in talk back TV. The woman is burdened by a recurring memory of the day her daughter did something appalling at a child beauty competition. |
Marc Richards, Marcel Dorney and Laurel Collins. Photo Christopher Totten |
The SuitcaseStage x Youth Festival, QPAC, Brisbane 2001 Maude is a pensioner who lives alone in her home with only the company of her memories which play round and round in her head like an old record. When the woman dies alone, her body decomposes and is partly eaten by her own cat. When a young addict breaks into Maudes house looking for shelter, a brief connection is made between the world of the living and the dead. |
