#redstitch

Working on some of my first embroidery with my mom! This is her design sampler to get me started on some basic stitches. #gomom #embroidery #handembroidery #redstitch #handwork #notknitting #crafty #handcrafted https://www.instagram.com/p/BuhQgswlNpY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cjd54jo66l30

#RedStitch Wittenoom. Fantastic production successfully balancing poetic evocation with personal emotions, as a mother & daughter live - and die - in the asbestos mine town in Western Australia. Huge kudos to writer Mary Anne Butler, director Susie Dee, actors Emily Goddard & Caroline Lee, and the whole team. (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpF1RcXOEyZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Midsumma #RedStitch The Feather in the Web. Nick Coyle’s play is a trap - for the audience and for the characters, where expectations are upended & the smiles of social convention become grimaces of discomfort or contortions of horror. Is the central character a monster, and if so is it innate, caused by her peers, by society, by the playwright - or by us, the audience, with our expectations & demands? Beautifully acted, though with the slightly fussy production stealing a little of the startling impact of the Sydney season. (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8xdBaynyTt/?igshid=3dx1ss4gh9d6

#RedStitch Control, by Keziah Warner, directed by Julian Meyrick. The play opens with overplayed broad humour: I groaned inwardly, but it quickly became apparent that these were contestants on an interplanetary reality TV show, manipulated for an invisible audience as they also try to retain their individuality - the stakes get extremely high. 20 years later women at a ‘museum’ under close surveillance try to game their primitive AI supervisor. 30 years later a programmer struggles with her robot as The Singularity seems to be unfolding. This amazing script is given a pitch-perfect production which is totally absorbing as we watch external & internal control jostle & compete in electronic panopticons: Foucault was never this fun. The long third act (Christina O’Neill & Naomi Rukavina) is breathtaking. One of the Plays of the Year. Lucky to be taken to the opening by the generous @keithgow :) (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3eKyjXH2F6/?igshid=1n1723xl71ozn

#RedStitch opening: Lamb, by Jane Bodie, music & lyrics by Mark Seymour, directed by Julian Meyrick. All very MTC, except this rural Aussie tale wound its way backward through this family’s history of everyday traumas and regrets. Apart from a shade of ‘idiot savant’, the second half was extremely strong. Thanks @keithgow! (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqcYldPFJxt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2lhu1b9i2tf8

#RedStitch Suddenly Last Summer. I only seem to enjoy absolutely superlative performances of Tennessee Williams’ overwritten, overblown Southern melodramas; ones that somehow find the humanity behind the never-ending angst of words, words, words. This wasn’t quite one of those occasions: despite a great attempt by all, it still dissolved into a great swamp of overhyperventilation. (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpqiNLgl-_U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fjst8kbs9hnu

#RedStitch Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams & Little Ones Theatre (directed by Stephen Nicolazzo, designed by Eugyeene Teh, lighting by Kate Sfetkidis, etc) (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpocpWPlVNZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wuav6qn1je9u

Although they almost look OK in the photo, these light-holding sconces at #RedStitch are actually the worst. Sorry. (at Red Stitch: The Actors' Theatre)