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Artwork for River Mumma and The Golden Table
River Mumma and The Golden Table

Thursday 7 August, 7PM

Southbank Theatre, The Lawler

Lore clashes with ambition in a mystical drama of transformation.

Approx. 70 minutes

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A political candidate campaigns to demolish a dangerous bridge that links the city to the regions. But as the home of River Mumma, the mermaid goddess of fortune, the bridge is revered as sacred. Lore clashes with ambition in a mystical drama of transformation – where change could cost the soul of a nation.

Director
Bernadette Fam                                            

Cast
Nicole Chapman                        
Chika Ikogwe                            
Kudakwashe                                 
Zenya Carmellotti                      
Alpha Kargbo                                     

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

  • Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type Performance Date(s)
Auslan Interpreted Thursday 7 August, 7PM
Artwork for Amarantha

Amarantha

Writer

Amarantha is a Jamaican/ Australian performer and playwright whose work shares sacred stories of her Indigenous American and West African ancestry, through a modern lens.

With her movement practice, proclivity for research and lyrical writing style, she creates plays rich in Afro-Caribbean mysticism and history that pulse with song, dance and drumming. In 2023, she was selected for La Mama Theatre’s Pathways Writers Program and Malthouse Theatre’s Besen Writers program. She is best known for penning and performing in “Oshun” (La Mama, 2022 & 2024) and “Ilarun:The Cutting Comb” (fortyfivedownstairs, 2024).

Artwork for Bernadette Fam

Bernadette Fam

Director

Bernadette Fam is an interdisciplinary dramaturg, director and theatre-maker. As an artist, Bernadette is passionate about exploring the intricacies of identity, belonging and cultural connection in Australia’s current socio-economic landscape and de-colonising processes of new work development.

From 2022-2024 Bernadette worked as the New Work Manager for Malthouse Theatre. Previously she has been a Literary Associate for Belvoir Theatre Company, a Griffin Studio artist and is a Creative Producer at Green Door Theatre Company.

As director Bernadette has directed the award-winning Masego Pitso in Chewing Gum Dreams by Michaela Coel (Green Door Theatre Company/Red Line Productions), The Other Shore (Victorian College of the Arts), Blacklisted (Rogues Projects/Hayes Theatre Company) and Hometowns (Q Theatre). She has directed new work developments for Malthouse Theatre, Green Door Theatre Company, Critical Stages Touring and Griffin Theatre Company. She has also assistant directed on productions at Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Hayes Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta. As Dramaturg Bernadette has worked with a range of companies including but not limited to: Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Playwriting Australia, Western Edge, PYT Fairfield, Sydney Chamber Opera, Poetry in Action, Critical Stages Touring, Green Door Theatre Company, Rogues Projects and Antipodes Theatre as well as her extensive work with independent artists across the sector.

Artwork for Isobel Morphy-Walsh

Isobel Morphy-Walsh

Dramaturg

Isobel Morphy-Walsh, a proud Nirim Baluk woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people, is a multidisciplinary artist working across visual and performance art. She is also a weaver, curator, producer, activist writer and educator. Isobel has spent her life working with her community and our cultures with a particular emphasis on history, culture, country and its importance today. Isobel comes from a family of storytellers and weavers and continues both of those practices in her own contemporary and creation storytelling, singing and dramatic performance. In 2023, she launched her first production combining her family’s skills in song, dance and story, Gunga-na Dhum Nganinju (The stories we hold tightly), as part of YIRRAMBOI Festival. Her first solo play Gunawarra Recreation was premiered in 2024 as part of the ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre company’s presentation of Blak In the Room. Her artwork can be found in state collections, over walls she passes, on the bodies of people she knows and in Heathcote as public art. Many a yarn, spoken word and song can be heard in her presence.

Artwork for Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson

Dramaturg

Mark Wilson works as a director, devisor, dramaturg, performer and writer. Directing credits include Declan Furber Gillick's Jacky (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Bighouse Dreaming (Melbourne Fringe Festival, Brisbane Festival, Darwin Festival),  Rory Godbold’s Code of Conduct (Midsumma Festival); Emma Hall’s World Problems (Theatre Oostblok, Amsterdam) and Michael Gow’s Sweet Phoebe (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre). As a maker and performer he has collaborated with Brian Lipson on The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus (Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne); Alice Will Caroline on Doors Shut (Melbourne Fringe/Temperance Hall); Triage Live Art Collective; and as dramaturg on Emily Godard’s This is Eden directed by Susie Dee. Before the pandemic, he created and performed three radical Shakespeare adaptations: Unsex Me, Richard II and Anti-Hamlet. He trained at Monash University, Victorian College of the Arts and Ecole Philippe Gaulier and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He teaches regularly at VCA. His shows have won awards at Melbourne Fringe and in the Independent Theatre and Dance categories at the Greenroom Awards.

Artwork for Chika Ikogwe

Chika Ikogwe

Lucia

Artwork for Kudakwashe

Kudakwashe

Micah

Artwork for Zenya Carmellotti

Zenya Carmellotti

Chief

Artwork for Alpha Kargbo

Alpha Kargbo

Jovanni/Lafayette

Artwork for Nicole Chapman

Nicole Chapman

Lucia (cover)

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Southbank, Victoria 3006