Ophelia/Machine

How do you change Ophelia's written Fate? Burn it down.

OPHELIA/MACHINE has a pool, some ink, some bodies, some mess.

OPHELIA/MACHINE interrogates how and why and what we do to female bodies in writing and on stage. The work is an ensemble, movement-based piece with a poetic script and a nonlinear structure. It is funny, moving, striking, something. OPHELIA/MACHINE explores the female experience and the treatment of women in traditional standards of theatre. Through a diverse group of female identifying bodies, the story of Ophelia is told. And changed. And retold. Every body on stage is Ophelia. Every body is born, is killed, is born again.

This show challenges the colonial, patriarchal structures of theatre. It problematizes the continual overuse of the white, male canon in theatre, it questions theatre as an institution and as an art form, it asks its audience to burn down every oppressive notion about theatre, it asks if that is even possible.

Madeleine Kerr and Karla Livingstone-Pardy went to high school and university together.

Making student theatre they found their shared hatred of Shakespeare and their shared love of movement based theatre. Madeleine and Karla completed their honours in English and Theatre Studies and Performance Studies respectively and have worked together on collaborative, devised works for the last three years.

OPHELIA/MACHINE
Dates: 27th, 28th, 29th September
Time: 7pm
VENUE: Phoenix Youth Hub – Auditorium: 72 Buckley St Footscray 3011
Full: $20 /Concession: $15 / companion cards accepted
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