I aim to create immersive, multi-sensory live performance that connects us on a deep level. With this in mind, I collaborate with other artists from a range of disciplines including movement artists, musicians, designers, visual artists, dramaturgs and technical producers. Experiences of taste, touch, and temperature combine with the more often used senses of sight and sound in my work. Through these more unusual storytelling experiences, a deeper and richer connection can be facilitated with our world and ourselves.
An experimental, playful approach distinguishes my work from other forms of theatre.
CURRENT WORKS IN PROGRESS
The show is built around the story of the Mar family, my Chinese ancestors, who were market gardeners and cooks in remote and regional Queensland. It includes my own story of finding healing and connection through my ancestors. The stories are placed within the context of a personal historical narrative – the Mar family’s connection and contribution to Queensland via small scale, community based agriculture and food/cooking.
See below for audio and video assets…
Promotional video for “Spirit Garden”
Yen Shoo’s Theme – Fire
Composer – Ray Lin
Mar Fan’s Theme – Metal
Composer – Ray Lin
Food and gardening are central to the storytelling, and different foods are served during the show to an intimate audience who can hear and smell the ingredients being prepared. Original music and visual design creates an engaging, multi-sensory, experiential theatrical production intended to be staged in non-traditional spaces. This work reflects the experience of Chinese immigrants within the Australian historical milieu, as well as the concept of belonging and inherited cultural attributes. Despite this being a deeply personal work, many other first generation Australians will be able to relate to it, especially those with Asian heritage
I am currently in the very early stages of writing and developing a trilogy of interconnected one act plays that explore theme of Love using taste, touch and music. Despite Love being a perennial theme in many works of theatre and art, I believe the universality of Love lends itself to innovative and unique storytelling methods that connect us viscerally to the experience of Love in all it’s complexity and power. With this in mind, I am developing these short plays to be tactile and experiential.
This trilogy is specifically written and designed to be toured to festivals, while still being suitable for presentation in mainstream venues.
[Sara’s] play was very funny, tightly written, and has loads of scope for dramatic expression on stage. I truly enjoyed it!
Patti, Actor
