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    There will be nudity, intermittently
    Radford, L (IKON Park, 2018)
    There will be nudity, intermittently contributed to the project Duck on the Pond organised by Darcey Bella Arnold. A group show investigating the newly inaugurated AFL Women’s (AFLW 2017) Australia’s national Australian rules football league for female players it included work by Kalinda Vary, Elena Betros López, Salote Tawale, Noriko Nakamura, Roberta Joy Rich, Lisa Radford and Darcey Bella Arnold. Curated by Darcey Bella Arnold. The exhibition was held in the George Harris Room located within IKON PARK, the home of the AFLW. Using the site specifically as a profoundly entrenched meeting place for the public, the exhibition took over the arena in an attempt to begin a dialogue about the AFLW, AFL and Australian sporting culture. Lisa Radford There will be nudity, intermittently Breanna McCarter and disclaimer in title on roomsheet, 2018
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    House Sisters
    Henry, K (Malthouse Theatre and Monash University, 2019)
    First there was Bettina Small, then Joanna Small, then Rowena Small. When they were children, their dad took them and their mum on a small boat to travel for 1000 days on the seas. The boat sank at 983 days. Now they are adults, and Bettina would rather forget it, Joanna can’t stop thinking about it and Rowena is running as far away from it as she can. That can only take them so far though, and planes have started falling out of the sky. House Sisters is a millennial farce on dislocation, longing, estrangement and how to find your family again when it’s fallen apart.
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    A Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Incredible Odds
    Cornwell, K ; Rose, M ; St Martins Youth Theatre performers, ; Rawcus Theatre Ensemble, (Co-production between St Martins Youth Theatre and Rawcus Theatre, for Midsumma Festival, 2022)
    Rawcus unites with a group of queer and allied young people to explode the word 'hero' into a thousand pieces and save you from it. [epic music] Using verbatim text from 90s action films, A Resourceful Hero Struggling Against Incredible Odds is a simultaneous homage to and lambasting of Hollywood blockbusters. [gunshots and explosions] Watch as we attempt to inhabit the persona of Bruce/Tom/Arnold and then figure out why we love him so much. Why do we want to be him? Are we allowed to be heroes too, running toward danger, surviving, and looking hot while doing it? Would you trust us to save you? This Midsumma. Get ready. For a takedown like you've never seen before. [music intensifies] Coming soon to a theatre near you. Presented by Midsumma Festival and Rawcus, in partnership with St Martins Youth Arts Centre, this playful deconstruction of the ‘hero’ sits at the intersection of queerness and disability. A celebration of diversity and visual story-telling, this performance offers a chance to see the heroes none of us grew up with on our big (or small) screens.
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    An Uncertain Time
    Austin, S ; Barlow, N (Fuse Festival, 2022-03-23)
    An Uncertain Time was an original performance work for babies aged 0-12 months and their carers. The culmination of a a praxis based approach to investigating dramaturgical principles of theatre for very early years audiences, this sensory and immersive performance work incorporated two performers, live music and song, projection and object puppetry.
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    Yes, No, Maybe
    Walker, A ; Austin, S (Punctum Inc, 2015)
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    The Cabin!
    Tomlins, E ; O'Farrell, J ; Austin, S (Darebin Arts, 2019)
    A horror show created by children for adult audiences.
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    Only A Year
    Austin, S ; Barlow, N ; Wenn, C ; Sweeny, R ; Vabre, R (Arts Centre Melbourne, 2019)
    ONLY A YEAR is an immersive, sensory theatre work designed for babies aged 0-12 months and their adults carers. Drawing on the idea that this first year of life is experienced by both babies and their carers as both the longest and shortest time imaginable, ONLY A YEAR uses the sensory aspects of seasons to portray the passing of one year of time. Featuring puppetry, visual storytelling and live music, this work won the Best Kids event at Melbourne Fringe Festival and was nominated for a Green Room Award for Outstanding Performance for Young People Trailer: https://vimeo.com/240461124
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    Walkative Melbourne
    Felstead, J (Walkative Society, 2021)
    This public walk took place live online for the Walkative Societies International Walks in Lockdown. We walked the periphery of Melbourne's Mantra Bell City Hotel at first light, while speaking to surreptitious footage of the hotel's inner workings taken by day. Formerly a hospital, the 1950s nurses’ swimming pool within apparently transports one’s mind away from the six lanes of traffic at the hotel’s suburban entrance… Until very recently Mantra had been a prison for over 60 refugees detained indefinitely on its third floor. These people were transported from Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru through “Medevac” legislation. This legislation, now repealed, gave doctors the authority to send asylum seekers in medical need to Australia for treatment. Refugees were detained at Mantra for 16 months of their 8 years in continuing detention. The daylight refracting from the hotel's glass exterior contributes to the concealment of the workings inside, whereby a private institution has been used to conduct public business so contentious that it typically takes place offshore. During COVID lockdown the hotel was within the 5km radius I could walk. In a period in which public protest has been largely impossible, walking this perimeter and engaging with this politics live as an international community has both gravity and credence.
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    Us
    Cornwell, K ; Rose, M ; Gardam, J ; Anderson, J ; Chilcott, J ; Joy, A ; Reid, P ; Reid, J ; Gaskin, S ; Piata Lascelles, R ; Soliman, J ; Hosny, N (St Martins Youth Theatre, 2021)
    An online performance inviting you into the magical moments found within home. Performed live online each night, Us shows home life as it is. The work captures micro-interactions between parents and their children, the beautiful, frustrating, messy, ridiculous, loving moments that usually go unseen, kept secret in the private realm and left out of grand narratives. Us is an invitation into the living room of a family that’s not yours and a wild meandering tale of how you are connected to them.
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    Lullabies Under the Stars
    Tayah, A (The Milstead Performing Arts Company, 2021)
    Presenting itself as a short (50 mins) diversion for very young children, Lullabies is actually an occasion for young parents to share a key family ritual as a group. In the final movement of the piece where lullabies are shared, we have seen and heard parents sing to their children in Hindi, Fijian, and a hilarious nonsense-English; we’ve shared spontaneous singalongs, learnt snippets of Japanese together, and shared these intimate and vulnerable expressions of maternity/paternity in a unique moment. Lullabies is about your community meeting each other and celebrating its own diversity. And in transforming the simple act of singing to your child into a powerful ritual it elevates young parenthood, which can feel like a chore to say the least, into an exclusive, affirming, privilege.