Performance workshop and showing

Tale of the Wolf: performance workshop and showing

Workshop:

Thursday 26 November 10am - 4 pm

Finding the Thread: is a workshop of physical training and performance composition for theatre makers, community collaborators, writers, researchers and more. It shares principles and methods 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.

Performance Showing:

Saturday 5th December 5 pm

Tale of the Wolf

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 speaks back to Freud's theory of Hysteria, through the mouth of the wolf, a mythic figure of transformation that predates psychoanalysis. This development adapts the performance set and dramaturgy for the unique Peacock theatre space at Salamanca Arts Centre where it is programmed in late December 2026.

The performance was first developed in residence at Odin Teatret within Holstebro Festuge, part of European Capital of Culture celebrations Aarus 2017. Odin Teatret, directed by Eugenio Barba, founded the historic 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.

Content warnings

This 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.

Click Get Tickets: to register for performance workshop and RSVP to showing

Location: Rex Cramphorn Studio, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2050.

Collaborating artist biographies

Jaime Petersen 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).

Lucy  Watson (Mads Clove) 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.

Alice Williams 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.

This project is supported through a residency at Theatre and Performance Studies, The University of Sydney