The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to enjoy the pleasures of the human body for a night.
But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is imprisoned on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is trapped in the wrong skins of woman and mother. After the Selkie escapes, her hybrid misfit daughter, the only one of her kind, is left entangled in the threads of intergenerational trauma.
Liminal Theatre and Performance return, in collaboration with writer/performer Georgie Durham, to present a new work of poetry and punk, exploring grotesque femininity, displacement, inheritance, and the freedom of being a misfit.
Durham’s virtuosic one-woman performance of two characters is accompanied by immersive video projection and sound design (by award-winning artists, videographer Ivanka Sokol, and composer Meta Cohen) and live electric guitar (Stella Delmenico).
Photos by Lincoln Gidney
The Selkie Project was developed through Liminal Theatre’s unique somatic creative writing process, over three years, several intensive workshops, and two showings. Theatre Works, the City of Melbourne, City of Port Phillip, and Rus Kitchen Studios, St Kilda, have supported the project at various stages.
