With exquisite skill and acute perception, profound and telling experiences in these individual women’s lives are highlighted and mixed into a rich absorbing work by Director Deborah Leiser-Moore. It is a little bit like a thickly rendered semi abstract oil painting - part probing reality, part insightful impression. Not a play – a work of refined art. Stage Whispers With older women being one of the fastest rising group of homeless people in Australia, it’s time that everyone’s eyes opened up to the reality we are facing and UnHOWsed is a captivating way to start. My Melbourne Arts Every scene is a painting. I would tell an artist to study these visuals if they were looking for how to make silences that weren't vacant. Alabama International Fringe Festival UnHOWsed is one of the most important work’s you’ll see. It’s under 60 minutes, and totally powerful. These are brave, real women, and they’re sharing a slice of themselves with the world to shed light on an experience far vaster and pervasive than the space of the stage. Theatre Press Theatre doesn’t get anymore special or unique than this. Theatre Travels |
Performed at:
2023 Alabama International Fringe Festival Digital Program Alabama, USA 2022 ProAct Festival Kyiv, Ukraine 2021 SerformanceP Festival Sao Paulo, Brazil 2021 Drum Theatre, Dandenong 2020 Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre, Egypt (pre-recorded and in competition) 2019 Theatre Works, St Kilda Produced as part of the main season of works |
unHOWsed
More elderly women are experiencing homelessness than ever before. In UnHOWsed these women take centre stage & shine a light on the unexplored territory of lives lived on the edge. Their real voices are strong and significant. In a series of poetic, non-linear, & true narratives, they bare the emotional baggage that comes with homelessness.
UnHOWsed is a multi-disciplinary performance work about older women’s homelessness – specifically based in the City of Port Phillip. It is a very relevant and timely topic affecting increasing numbers of women. It is currently one of the fastest growing types of homelessness.
Recent census data shows that in five years the number of older woman experiencing homelessness has increased by 31 percent, Homelessness Australia last year reported the number of older women ‘couch surfing’ increased 83 per cent and the number of older women sleeping in cars rose 75 per cent in four years.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Deborah Leiser-Moore
Composer/Sound Director: Nela Trifkovic
Written By: The Ensemble
Performers: Carla Mitterlehner, Susan V.M. McDonald-Timms, Jan Grey, Diann Pattison, Maurya Bourandanis, Catherine Samsury, Karen Corbett, Liza Dezfouli
Lighting Designer/AV: Kinetic Screen
Stage Manager / Production Assistant: Hayley Lawson Smith
Publicity: Eleanor Howlett (Sassy Red PR)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This project has been supported by City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Fund, Creative development supported by the City of Darebin, ALV Productions, Bunnings Port Melbourne, Christ Church St Kilda and Coles Balaclava
Thanks to Linden, Robyn Szetchman, Deb McIntosh, Rv Turi, Theatre Works, Eleanor Howlett, Roberto Malara, Rose Godde.
PRESS:
Stage Whispers
Theatre Press
My Melbourne Arts
Theatre Travels
Time Out
The Age
ABC News Online
Life Matters
UnHOWsed is a multi-disciplinary performance work about older women’s homelessness – specifically based in the City of Port Phillip. It is a very relevant and timely topic affecting increasing numbers of women. It is currently one of the fastest growing types of homelessness.
Recent census data shows that in five years the number of older woman experiencing homelessness has increased by 31 percent, Homelessness Australia last year reported the number of older women ‘couch surfing’ increased 83 per cent and the number of older women sleeping in cars rose 75 per cent in four years.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Deborah Leiser-Moore
Composer/Sound Director: Nela Trifkovic
Written By: The Ensemble
Performers: Carla Mitterlehner, Susan V.M. McDonald-Timms, Jan Grey, Diann Pattison, Maurya Bourandanis, Catherine Samsury, Karen Corbett, Liza Dezfouli
Lighting Designer/AV: Kinetic Screen
Stage Manager / Production Assistant: Hayley Lawson Smith
Publicity: Eleanor Howlett (Sassy Red PR)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This project has been supported by City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Fund, Creative development supported by the City of Darebin, ALV Productions, Bunnings Port Melbourne, Christ Church St Kilda and Coles Balaclava
Thanks to Linden, Robyn Szetchman, Deb McIntosh, Rv Turi, Theatre Works, Eleanor Howlett, Roberto Malara, Rose Godde.
PRESS:
Stage Whispers
Theatre Press
My Melbourne Arts
Theatre Travels
Time Out
The Age
ABC News Online
Life Matters
