THIS IS EDEN

$5.40 – $15.00

Included in the Of The Island Collection

1839. Cascades Female Factory, Hobart Town. In a solitary cell, on the edge of survival, a ‘sleek little savage’ waits alone in the darkness. Left for dead, ten thousand miles from home, she plots escape and reveals, with biting mockery, the untold tales of her captors. This is Eden is at once an examination of our dark past, a parody of the way we perceive it and a vital call to arms.

From performer and theatre maker Emily Goddard and director Susie Dee comes a dark, humorous and provocative 'anti-bonnet drama' inspired by the rebellion and resistance of the female convicts of Van Diemen’s Land. Using the French clowning technique of Bouffon, where outcasts ridicule and provoke those in power, Goddard and Dee tread a fine line between the grotesque and charming to bring to life an extraordinary chapter of rebellion and survival that has conveniently escaped our nation’s history lesson.

More info on This is Eden including production shots, trailer, research and review links can be found here: www.thisiseden.com.au

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