'Extraordinary friendships. Extraordinary women.
'An intricately woven play, Head Full of Love draws a portrait of the relationships that develop at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. This renowned Central Australian event is an annual pilgrimage for women as diverse and distant as the Anangu and Tjanpi weavers, and Western women from all over the world.
'As secrets are shared and struggles are faced, a tendril of trust begins to develop into an unlikely friendship and the distance between worlds diminishes.
'Directed by Wesley Enoch and starring Colette Mann and Roxanne McDonald, this remarkable production is an invitation to look differently at the possibilities of an everyday item and by extension, our everyday lives.'
(Source: http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/Schools-Program/head-full-of-love.html)
Premiered at the Darwin Festival in 2010.
Performed at Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Brisbane, from 7 July to 11 August 2012.
Presented by the Queensland Theatre Company.
Cast: Collette Mann and Rozanne McDonald.
Director: Wesley Enoch.
Set Design: Simone Romaniuk.
Composer: Brett Collery.
Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes.
'The process of creating verbatim theatre often involves interviewing a community of storytellers, documenting these conversations and using the stories to inform the creative development of a play. These practices prompt the act of personal storytelling, and the material generated in a verbatim theatre process often includes the core features of belonging, such as identity narratives, people making sense of their experiences and discursively identifying their sense of self and how they belong in their community. I suggest that these features, in combination with the common verbatim conventions of direct address and diegetic theatricality, form a dramaturgy of belonging. I propose a dramaturgy of belonging and suggest that the sense of community belonging experienced by audiences is a direct result of the practice of community immersion and interviewing in a verbatim theatre process.' (Publication abstract)
Head Full of Love, 'a play about an unlikely friendship between an Aboriginal and a white woman will be staged in western Sydney next month...'
Head Full of Love, 'a play about an unlikely friendship between an Aboriginal and a white woman will be staged in western Sydney next month...'
