DIRECTOR / Robert Draffin
WRITER AND DRAMATURG / Emily Burke
COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER / Meta Cohen
PROJECTION DESIGNER / Ivanka Sokol
PERFORMER / Georgie Durham
DRAMATURG / Zachary Sheridan
Supported by the City of Port Phillip
The Selkie Project
Liminal Theatre Co
Melbourne, 2023
She Writes Residency
Theatre Works
Melbourne, 2022-23
She Writes is a new writing and performance program for emerging or mid-career female-identifying playwrights. This program offers participating writers support networks and professional development to generate the next wave of unique performance writing, ready for when stages become live again.
Meta has been a resident dramaturg in the program since 2020.
The Selkie Project is a new Australian work which explores gender roles, displacement, and inheritance, by re-examining the Celtic myth of the Selkie.
It follows the story of the Selkie, a seal-woman, displaced into an unfamiliar human world. Grotesquely animal, but trapped in the human roles of ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, she is an alien living on land and yearning for the sea. The work also traces the generational fracture created in her daughter, who lives and breathes the aftermath of this displacement, carrying the burden of the past.
A one woman show, the Selkie Project is a poetic collision of an old myth with contemporary experience, threaded by vast metaphoric imagery by Green Room Award winner Ivanka Sokol, and evocative sound design by Meta Cohen.
HOMO
FOMO
HOMO FOMO
HOMO FOMO
by the Moreness Collective
LEAD CREATIVES
DIRECTOR, DRAMATURG AND CO-CREATOR / Alyson Campbell
COMPOSER, DRAMATURG AND CO-CREATOR / Meta Cohen
WRITER, PERFORMER AND CO-CREATOR / İbrahim Halaçoğlu
WRITER AND CO-CREATOR / Peta Murray
HOMO FOMO is a new queer performance work about the fear of dancing, the pursuit of queer joy, and being a ‘bad queer’. It explores how rules dictating 'how to be a queer person' get repeated and enculturated in a series of patterns over time, focussing particularly on the nightlife space, which is more complex than usual representations of glitter, mirror balls and sweaty bodies suggest. HOMO FOMO draws on intergenerational queer experiences – both personal and through community interviews – to interrogate what it means to be part of ‘the queer community’ today, or indeed to feel that you are missing out on it.
Further projects to be announced soon!