Emma Valente Emma Valente i(A141277 works by)
Also writes as: The Rabble
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Emma Valente has worked as a freelance lighting designer, director and production manager and as co-artistic director of The Rabble theatre company. She has taught Production, Lighting and Theatre Elements at the National Theatre Drama School and Box Hill TAFE. She has taken a course in Engineering, Architectural Lighting and Design and part of the Artistic Advisory Panel for Melbourne Workers Theatre.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works: 'Frankenstein', co-created with Kate Davis. Performed at the Beckett Theatre: 21 March-5 April 2014

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

Unwoman 2019 single work drama

'Unwoman is song.

'Unwoman is a crime.

'Unwoman is a real and substantial risk.

'UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.

'Made with THE RABBLE, professional performers and a community ensemble of pregnant performers, UNWOMAN is an invocation of the pregnant body as a plurality of experiences. It is visceral, carnal and an uncompromising piece of feminist theatre horrified by the history and laws attempting to curb bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.'

Source: The Substation.
2020 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards — Direction : Theatre - Independent
2020 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards — Best Ensemble — Independent Theatre
Cain and Abel 2014 single work drama

'And while they were in the field Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4

'The biblical story of Cain and Abel is the story of the first act of violence – an act that ricocheted across millennia and divided civilisations. It is the genesis of a vision of history as man on man, brother on brother, blood on the earth.

'Cain and Abel is a show about violence and reinventing history, made by women. Melbourne theatre-makers THE RABBLE are a law unto themselves, and it’s thrilling to see.

'Their method is basically to take a big idea, lock themselves in a room, and make a piece of theatre. The big idea here is the tale from Genesis and its many iterations – Milton and Byron, Baudelaire and Baby Jane.

'After the knock-out success of Orlando and The Story of O in Melbourne, 'Cain and Abel' is the next installment in THE RABBLE’s assault on the great stories of Western civilisation.'(Production summary)
2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards — Production : Theatre - Independent (The Rabble and the Substation)
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