

The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to feel the pleasures of the human body for a night.
But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is trapped on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is stuck in the wrong skins of woman and mother. And her hybrid, misfit daughter, the only one of her kind, is left struggling to escape the generational memory of the ocean.
Liminal Theatre and Performance return, in collaboration with writer/performer Georgie Durham, to present a new work of poetry and punk, exploring grotesque femininity, displacement, inheritance, and the freedom of being a misfit.
Durham’s virtuosic one-woman performance of two characters is directed by Draf Draffin, accompanied by immersive video projection and sound design by award-winning artists, videographer Ivanka Sokol and composer Meta Cohen, and Stella Delmenico's live electric guitar.
WITH: LIMINAL THEATRE COMPANY
DIRECTOR / Robert (Draf) Draffin
WRITER AND PERFORMER / Georgie Durham
SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER / Meta Cohen
VIDEO AND PROJECTION ARTIST / Ivanka Sokol
LIVE ELECTRIC GUITAR / Stella Delmenico
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Zachary Sheridan
DRAMATURG / Emily Burke
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12 - 21 June 2025
Theatre Works, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia -
November 2023
Run Kitchin Studio, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION EXCERPTS:
The Selkie Project was developed through Liminal Theatre’s unique somatic creative writing process, over three years, several intensive workshops, and two seasons of shows. Theatre Works, the City of Melbourne, City of Port Phillip, and Rus Kitchen Studios, St Kilda, have supported the project at various stages.
‘At the heart of it all is the selkie’s loss of identity, stuck in an alien world where she does not belong.
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A particular highlight for me is the scene of the underwater fish, where the calming projection of the subterranean depths is interrupted with uniquely urban noises – skidding cars, bell-chimes, honking, etc. This shows how trapped the selkie feels in the inescapable human world’
- Jessica Fanwong, The Dialog









