Performing Lines & Griffin Theatre Company
Theatre · World Premiere
A Loved Woman
(Australia)
A queer icon – and her mum – bare all.
Queer performance icon Emma Maye Gibson (aka Betty Grumble) is known for many things: anarchic performance art, powerful politics, riotous stripping, vulva prints, orgasmic ritual and (fake) onstage shits. But now, she’s exposing more than she ever has before – her complicated relationship with her mother.
The (in)famous sex clown is feted around the world for her explicit and fearless burlesque and cabaret performance art, but what does her former bodybuilding and aerobics champion mother make of all the mess and fury?
From teenage runaways to smashed dinner plates and leotards stretched over bruises, Emma Maye and her mum Karmyn rip the clothes off their chequered history and ask what passes between mothers and daughters, and can they find a way to forgive?
Stick around for a post-show talk following the 1pm show on 9 January.
Credits
Lead Artist, Performer Emma Maye Gibson
Lead Artist, Performer Karmyn Gibson
Director & Dramaturg Declan Greene
Sound & AV Designer Daniel Herten
Lighting Designer Frankie Clarke
Set Designer Isabel Hudson
Costume & Associate Set Designer Mason Browne
Associate Director Imbar 'Imbi" Nassi
Consultant Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor
Producer Vanessa Wright
Photography Liz Ham
Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival, Riverside Theatres and produced by Performing Lines.
A Loved Woman was developed as part of Griffin Studio, an initiative of Griffin Theatre Company, with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and Griffin Studio donors. Development of A Loved Woman was proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and by Randwick City Council.
Special thanks to Julia Champtaloup & Andrew Rothery
Important information
This production contains strong language, flashing lights, haze, theatrical smoke effects and partial nudity.
Content warning: The show explores mature and potentially distressing themes, including institutionalisation, suicide, domestic and sexual violence, childbirth and child loss, grief, and death.
Recommended for audiences aged 15+.
Dates
Duration
1 hour 20 minutes (no interval).
Venue
Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Road Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Walsh Bay NSW 2000
5 Parramatta Square Basement Level 1 Parramatta NSW 2150
Meet the artist
The lead creative/s at the heart of this work.
Emma Maye Gibson
Australia
Karmyn Gibson
Images and Video
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