I hope this means something

Chapel Off Chapel, October 2 - 13

 

Publicity by Eleanor Howlett, Sassy Red PR

 

For a downloadable PDF program click here. 
 

Creator’s Note

 

This work owes a tremendous debt to the community of people who helped create it.

 

To Melbourne Fringe and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, City of Stonnington and the Australian Cultural Fund, thank you for your trust and support.

 

To Sam Harvey, Michael Steele, Annabel Larcombe, Jack O’Connor and Adam Lowe thank you for your extraordinary generosity.

 

To Emily Woods, Sue Raymond, the Henscke’s, Melinda Pike, Nicola Hurst, Elizabeth Guilfoyle, Jamie Hibbert, Sarah McCrorie, Matt and Maddy Reade, Angus Cameron, Danielle Barrett, Olly Cirocco, Bronwen Coleman, XaSha Chua-Huggins, Eliza Van Den Brink, Al McEwen, Tia Olsen, The Henschke’s, Neville Sloss, Donna McFetridge, Alex Haysman, Marie Widera, Jill Cooke, Rosie Harris and Joy Groves, thank you for your support to help realise this work.

 

To Kamarra, thank you for your guidance and care.

 

To Ben, thank you for your genius and friendship.

 

To Rosie, thank you for your patience and calm amidst the chaos.

 

To M’ck, Natalia, Ethan and Lara, thank you for your sharing your art with me. Your talents and vision are undeniable to anyone who experiences this work.

 

To Gary and Vicky, thank you for gifting me space and time to create.
 

To Wil, thank you for your love, no matter the outcome.

 

In my VCA audition we were tasked with physicalising an impossible task, like sitting on a cloud or wrapping our arms around the moon.

 

Young, sweaty and oh-so-eager to please I threw myself into it. A teacher came up behind me and said quietly, ‘we know you want to be here. You don’t have to prove it.’

 

Ten years on I’m still trying to learn that lesson.

 

Creating this work in less than seven months has been close-to an impossible task. It was only possible because of the people I mention above.

 

Thank you all for offering your attention to be with this work tonight.