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.

Contact the host of Tale of the Wolf: Performance and Workshop Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Arts Centre

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