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Gender: Female
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1 I Hide in Bathrooms Astrid Pill , 2024 single work drama

'Absurd and darkly funny, I Hide in Bathrooms is a revealing meditation on mortality and romance from performance artist Astrid Pill. 

'Working with long-term collaborators and experimental theatre-makers, including co-devisors Ingrid Voorendt, Zoë Barry and Jason Sweeney, Astrid Pill draws on real experiences to create a work that fuses fiction with autobiography. I Hide in Bathrooms reflects on the experience of losing an intimate partner, falling for someone whose partner has passed away and traversing a relationship while dying. Shifting between these points of view, a woman addresses her romantic delusions, sense of mortality and capacity for hope. 

'Premiering at Adelaide Festival and presented by Vitalstatistix as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, I Hide in Bathrooms is a funny and deeply moving work about the relationships between lovers – dead and alive.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 1 Cake Astrid Pill , 2007 single work drama

'" Cake" is a culinary tour-de-force of passion and pavlova. Indulge your senses as Astrid Pill and Zoe Barry get elbows deep in the stuff of life to cook up a deliciously dizzy melange of loss, recovery, seduction, satire and serenade. "Cake" blends sumptuous wordplay, physicality, gentle audience interaction and music

Amid clouds of flour, Astrid leads us by the nose through stirring experiences of appetite, fullness, pregnancy, desire, emptiness and into the absurdity, pain, mess and escapism of romantic love. Her longing is traced out on the hard wood of her kitchen table, immersing you in the folds of fancy and recollection. All the while, Zoe (a multi-instrumentalist who has scored more than 30 productions) performs lush musical accompaniment on squeezebox accordion that is as richly textured as the finest European pastry.' Source: www.malthousetheatre.com.au (Sighted 04/09/2007).
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