Belloo (AUSTRALIA) in collaboration with Good Company Arts (NEW ZEALAND) and Phluxus2 Dance Collective (AUSTRALIA) PRESENT

The Woman Remembers

The Woman Remembers is a sophisticated and visually striking projection work that explores themes of belonging and loss, reflecting on our relationship with the landscape and our shared experience of the climate emergency. The work has evolved through a long-term collaboration between independent theatre companies in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

Scalable in form, it has appeared as a projection across the façade of the Judith Wright Centre (2022), and as an immersive micro-cinema experience at Metro Arts (2023). Across both iterations, the work invites audiences to reflect on the fragility of landscape and the quiet urgency of the climate emergency, tracing the delicate threads that bind memory, place, and change.

Watch the video below featuring the façade of the Judith Wright Centre, and visit our International Women’s Day page for more information about the micro-cinema experience.

  • Duration: Flexible

    Recommended age: All ages

  • Writer Katherine Lyall-Watson
    Creative Director Caroline Dunphy
    Dramaturg Kathryn Kelly
    Digital & Visual Designer Daniel Belton
    Videographer Shaun Charles
    Choreographer Nerida Matthaei
    Performers Hsin-Ju Ely, Chiu-Ju Wang, Jacob Watton, Charles Ball & Zachary Boulton
    Original music by Good Company Arts, featuring Jac Grenfell, Daniel Belton and Eliahpt

    Images by Barbara Lowing.

  • 1 November 2021 – 2 January 2022 | Judith Wright Centre | Brisbane, Australia
    8 March 2023 | International Women’s Week | Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia

  • The Woman Remembers is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Script excerpt

The woman remembers
the day the earth shook
and the sea came rushing inland

burying her house
burying her street
burying her village

under thick mud

The woman digs until stars forget their origins
and planets whirl in silence

She is a reel of thread
She is undone

Script excerpt from The Woman Remembers © Katherine Lyall-Watson

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