Three performance works by three women touching on feminism, race, identity and the comedy and horror of it all.

Practice-based Honours in Theatre and Performance is a year long intensive creative-research process that allows students to develop their practice and create original, innovative works. Supervised and supported by UNSW staff this process culminates in a final public presentation.

Sophie Strykowski:

Hack

Performance

Regardless of a comedian’s gender, stand-up comedy is masculine. The way comedians walk around stage, the way they talk, and the way the joke builds to the punch. Hack breaks down the classical comic set and asks if there’s space for the feminine. This is a comic set, possibly without comedy.

Kelly-Ann Standley:

How To: Do The Work

Performance and Installation

Drawing on her experience as a young woman of colour, Kelly-Ann’s How To: Do The Work, is a performance and installation piece that traverses social media platforms, staff rooms, and the stage. Scroll through Instagram, enjoy a YouTube tutorial, make tea in a novelty mug, replay a conversation with your peers, and watch a young woman watching you. This performance invites you to negotiate and renegotiate—as the performer does—your relation to race. It asks you to watch, to listen, to laugh with recognition, to sit in awkward silence, to hang your head with shame, to decide whether to intervene, to reflect and most of all to persevere. Your requirement? Do some work, to do the work, and reflect on some of the most pressing cultural work we have.

Georgia Watkins

Pink

Performance

While Beyoncé is getting in formation, and the world is hash-tagging metoo, what power can a colour have? Why is pink everywhere? Is pink being used as a weapon against us? Should we even like pink? Pink looks at the politics of pink and its ties to fourth wave feminism. This could get messy.

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