Fault Lines of Place
1 - 2 pm
Michelle Wright, Kate Mildenhall & Melissa Manning
with Hilary Harper
Location:
Reardon Theatre
The Australian landscape has a long history of hiding what we want forgotten, but the ground always shifts eventually. Melissa Manning evokes the damp, nostalgic air of regional Australia to explore community ties and hidden grief in Frogsong. Kate Mildenhall turns her sharp gaze to a private bushland Eden that quickly spirals into a dark, claustrophobic nightmare in The Hiding Place. Meanwhile, Michelle Wright anchors Good Boy in the rigid geography of a prison system, tracing an inmate's path toward redemption alongside a troubled animal. Together, they discuss the physical and emotional fault lines in us all.
