Bundanon

Sarah Giles is a theatre maker and director

IN RESIDENCE 2014

Longtime friends and theatre makers, Amber McMahon and Sarah Giles spent one week in Bundanon finishing the script of their most recent work. This work, loosely based on real life events from their shared history took the form of a one woman show, written collaboratively, directed by Giles and performed by McMahon. These stories revolve around the trials and tribulations of life and explore what it is to face this chaos with heedless buoyant optimism and staircase wit.

IN RESIDENCE 2013

Sarah Giles with Annie Maynard, Paige Gardiner, Miriam Glaser and Alex Aldrich developing their new performance work REMIX.

REMIX explored contemporary ideas of Feminism and what it means to both men and women today. Over the course of their residency, the group generated content through structured improvisation and dramaturgical investigation. REMIX was developed from three key-stone feminist texts; Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth. The group selected key themes and passages from each text – taking chapters, quotes, statistics, historical facts, as well as philosophical ideas which provided the springboard for their investigation.