Tale of the Wolf: Performance and Workshop Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre
Description
Tale of the Wolf: Performance and Workshop
Tale of the Wolf: Performance
When I was sixteen, my Mother played me a recording of Jeffery Masson’s The Freud Diaries, about Freud’s suppression of the Seduction Theory, which led Freud to develop his theory of Hysteria. Tale of the wolf reimagines Little Red Riding Hood from a survivor’s point of view. It tells the story of a woman half human half wolf, set within a fictional history of wolves in Australia. It speaks back to Freud's theory of Hysteria, through the mouth of the wolf, a mythic figure of transformation that predates psychoanalysis. Weaving physical theatre and storytelling, comic domestic anecdotes and fragments of Angela Carter fairy tales, it traces a path through the layers of fabrication that line our colonial history, seeking to reconcile us with our own natures. The performance is a dark, playful act of contemporary myth making, dispelling the shadows that lie between the stories we tell.
Performance Times
Friday 18th Dec, 8 pm
Saturday 19th December, 8 pm
Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre, 7 Salamanca Pl, Pattery Point, TAS, 7004
Tale of the Wolf: Workshop
Tale of the Wolf: auto – ethnographic theatre anthropology is a workshop of physical training and performance composition for theatre makers, community collaborators, writers, researchers and more. It shares principles and methods used to create the performance learned since 2012 from Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret. It explores developing questions of auto – ethnographic theatre anthropology, the act of authoring one’s own experience through theatre and performance with Institute of Luck. These questions include how the seemingly individual aspects of our own experience in theatre might reflect its function in relationship with everyday life.
Workshop Time:
Saturday 19th November 10am - 1 pm
Workshop Facilitators:
Alice Williams
Lucy Watson
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The performance was first developed in residence at Odin Teatret and at Holstebro Festuge, as part of European Capital of Culture celebrations Aarus 2017. Odin Teatret, directed by Eugenio Barba, founded the field of theatre anthropology. Supported by Inner West Council the performance was presented as a work in progress at Teatr Brama’s Human Mosaic Festival 2018. Set designer Lucy Watson, dramaturg Adeeb Razzouk, and lighting designer Jaime Petersen, with Institute of Luck developed the performance for Sydney Fringe Festival 2023. This presentation of this project is supported through a residency at Theatre and Performance Studies, The University of Sydney.
Content warning
This performance uses biological metaphors that connect the survivor’s body, voice and wild nature. This is a hopeful message that reflects our place in ecology. Although this is an adaptation of a fairytale, it does concern trauma. Appropriate supports are recommended if its themes are triggering 1800RESPECT, Lifeline and Beyond Blue.
Lineup
Alice Williams: performer, workshop facilitator
Alice is a performance maker, community collaborator and researcher, directing Institute of Luck, a company founded through her auto – ethnographic PhD research with historic company Odin Teatret, interested in how theatre transforms everyday life. Her performances have been programmed by Inner West Council’s Edge Spaces program, PACT, Performance Space, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Brisbane Festival, Arts House, Human Mosaic Festival, supported by local, federal governments and private philanthropy. She directs and facilitates community collaborations, including with Milk Crate Theatre and NIDA Open, and asks herself how theatre anthropology might function in the first person, towards an auto – ethnographic theatre anthropology.
Lucy Watson (Mads Clove): set designer, workshop co - facilitator
Lucy is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans and combines writing, visual art and performance, informed by clowning, creative movement and storytelling. She often presents work as Mads Clove and is interested in expanding and fracturing what we expect of ourselves as humans, so we can feel safe expressing difference. Lucy completed a BA Hons. from Australian National University, and an MA from UNSW Art and Design. Lucy is passionate about the role of art in healing and community. She has worked extensively with people with disability, physical and mental health struggles and complex or traumatic lived experiences, and through her own lived experience feels connection and community within these groups.
Jaime Petersen: lighting designer
Jaime is a lighting designer and operator currently working at Sydney Opera House. She is a University of Wollongong alumni, she has stage managed a wide variety of shows including Relativity (Joining the Dots Theatre Co. and National Theatre of Parramatta), Little Jokes in Times of War (KXT), Come Again (Purple Tape Productions), Sweet Mama (Campbelltown Arts Centre).and production managed for Darlinghurst Theatre Company during the World Pride festival in Sydney as part of this work she managed Rainbow Tree (Fat Fruit), All The Sex I’ve Ever Had (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Gender Euphoria: Mighty Real (Mama Alto & Maude Davey), and Rainbow History Class: Live Show (Rudy Jean Rigg & Hannah McElhinney).
Adeeb Razzouk: dramaturg
Adeeb is a multi-disciplinary artist, youth art worker and emerging intimacy coordinator working on the traditional land of the gadigal people of the Eora nation , Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor in Theatrical Acting from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 2016. Growing up in Aleppo, Syria nurtured his curiosity to discover storytelling mediums using arts and technology.
Institute of Luck
Institute of Luck is a Sydney based theatre company interested in theatre that transforms everyday life. It developed through Potluck peer exchange and professional development workshops 2021 supported by Inner West Council. The company has initiated Green Machine, based on a story written during a relapse scare of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma about a monstrous plant that invades the home of a lovely couple, Supported by Inner West Council, presented community and creative workshops with Riverside Theatres, Bill Crews’ Foundation, developed and presented Tale of the Wolf, including in residence at Rex Cramphorn Studios 2026.
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