desperately seeking daphne
Love is blind but obsession sees very clearly.
Images by Daniel Rabin
Part coming-of-age, part feminist psychodrama ‘Desperately Seeking Daphne’ is both a terrifying exploration of the harm caused to women and a life-affirming ode to the joys of being a femme.
Exploring the complex relationships between love and desire and victims, perpetrators and trauma, DSD also fathoms the power of friendship and solidarity and how this can provide a pathway to hope and transcendence. Thanks to the unique connection between the three women, brutal betrayals will be exorcised and abandoned dreams will be reignited.
Directed by Louise Howlett
Performed by Josh Monaghan and Maddie Roberts
Multimedia - Sahaj Garg
Venue - TheatreWorks 14 Acland St, St Kilda, VIC, 3182
Dates and Times - Wed 4th October at 6 pm | Thurs 5th Oct at 8 pm | Friday 6th Oct at 6 pm
Tickets $15 available here
Belinda Kirwan
Playwright
Belinda Kirwan is a writer/performer living and working in Melbourne/Naarm.
For theatre, she has developed the play ‘Factory’ as part of the In One Act Writer’s Program (funded by Melbourne Writers’ Theatre and Yarra City Council), had the all-female ‘Nylon Nights’ produced by Mudfest at La Mama Courthouse and performed the one-woman show ‘Daddy.’
She has written and performed comedy for the screen as a co-creator/writer of the comedy series HActresses which premiered on YouTube and was later acquired and screened on 9Go! and 9Now. The series was also selected and received a slew of nominations at international festivals including HollyWeb, Asia Web Awards and the International Online Web Festival (UK).
Her performing credits have also included Shakespeare, live sketch and radio, ‘Counter Girls (web series), ‘Neighbours,’ ‘Rostered On’ (Netflix), ‘The Cult of the Family’ (ABC) as well as commercial television journalism roles.
Belinda’s passion for comedy and drama told from a female perspective is a large part of what drives her work. Key areas of focus include sexual and gender politics and women’s issues explored from a feminist perspective as well as class and the inequities of disadvantage. She’s at her happiest when she can explore the comedy and absurdism within the drama and the glamour in the everyday.
About she writes
The She Writes Collective is Theatre Works' two-year writing program to develop female-identifying and non-binary playwrights.
Participating writers have included a cross-section of gender diverse, culturally diverse, emerging and early-career writers of performance across a range of age groups and abilities, at varying stages in their playwriting practices. They’ve all had a burning idea they wanted to write into a play...
PRESENTING SHE WRITES is a collection of 15-minute excerpts from their new plays wrapped up in one unmissable night of theatre. Looking forward to seeing you there!