Catherine Fargher Catherine Fargher i(A86147 works by)
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1 A Queer Performance New Wave in Sydney : Inside 'cLUB BENT' 1995-1998 - Exploring Hybridity and Community Catherine Fargher , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 81 2022; (p. 98-126)

'Every night of the first season of 'cLUB bENT' was a spectacular performance event. Taking place at The Performance Space, Redfern, during Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) festival 1995, 'cLUB bENT' represented a defining moment in 1990s queer performance, exploring identity, new and old performance forms, gender diversity, abject sexuality and sex positivism. 'cLUB bENT' also became a site where performance forms and 'elements' - which I define as creative tropes, gestures and performance languages which might recur in identical yet random ways in later works - were hybridised over time and new reference points for content and form were created among a broad community of performers and activists.' (Publication abstract) 
1 1 form y separately published work icon The Jetty Catherine Fargher , 2011 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2011 Z1772442 2011 single work radio play

'It's a frontier town in the 1920s. Copper tailings in the water. Wedge-tailed eagles circling the town tip. Aboriginal camps in the sand dunes. But progress is coming to Wangaroo.'

Source: http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/news/UOW099527.html Sighted: 14/04/2011
1 form y separately published work icon There Waits the Wolf Catherine Fargher , 2009 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2009 Z1611347 2009 single work radio play

'Why do adolescents keep diaries? For whom are they written, and who will read them?

'Between the pages of one girl's journal a nascent sexual and social awareness comes alive. Between the music lessons, the Mall, the ironing and the kitchen chores, an erotic and secretive tale unfolds. "Mamma, life has just begun".

'Does Mother realise as she fills a basket for the trip to Grandma's that within the forest of her daughter's mind waits the wolf?'

Source: ABC Radio National's Airplay website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/
Sighted: 04/08/2009
1 1 form y separately published work icon The Violin Player Catherine Fargher , 2009 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2009 Z1567875 2009 single work radio play

'One young man fought on the Somme. His great-nephew busked in Paris. Their experiences are brought together by the violin which travelled with them both.'

Source: ABC Radio National's Airplay website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/
Sighted: 16/03/2009
1 2 Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear Catherine Fargher , 2007 single work musical theatre fable young adult When a man loses his ear in a bizarre cycling accident involving a bull terrier, he cannot shake the yearning to replace it. A mysterious scientist, Dr Egg, offers a previously unthinkable possibility; he can grow the man a new ear. But first he needs a piece of his daughters' precious flesh. The Man refuses to harm his daughter. Eager to make her father happy, the daughter makes her way to the lab of Dr Egg and offers her ear.When the science is done, the ear grows and grows. But it does not stop there. A new life is made. And it looks a lot like her. The Daughter is faced with a serious dilemma. Source: http://www.jessicawilson.com.au/Productions/DrEgg_Thumbs.htm
1 form The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child Catherine Fargher , 2004 single work drama radio play

'The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child' follows a woman scientist as she does an extraordinary thing: she is knitting herself a child. The piece explores the reveries of a woman as she tries to make sense of a changing and highly technological world of new genetic futures.

Working at the 'coalface' of genetic research, cloning transgenic organisms, she explores the possibilities she is creating through her work and the miraculous futures promised by cloning, IVF, stem cell technology and dolly the sheep. In her inner world, the mitochondrial/ subconscious space, she knits together the ancient knit and purl stitches, and the constantly evolving strands of DNA double helix. Throughout the play, memories of her past emerge, as a child and as a pregnant teenager making a decision on her reproductive future, and finally the growing wish for her own child.

(Source: ABC Radio website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/airplay/s1241396.htm)
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