Sorry For Your Loss

Date

Fri 9 - Sat 10 May

Venue

The Channel

Arts Centre Melbourne

100 St Kilda Road, Southbank VIC 3004

A heartfelt and hilarious story about growing up on the mean streets of Aotearoa with a sometimes-there-mostly-not Dad. Sorry For Your Loss is about the power of wāhine (women); and the gift of strength from one woman to another.

International

Theatre

Australian Premiere

Cian Parker shares her story about reclaiming her heritage when she is unexpectedly introduced to a father and a family she didn’t know existed.

Parker has teamed up with director and dramaturg Laura Haughey who brings her unique physical approach to storytelling in this vibrant, award-winning piece of devised theatre.

Live music by Andy Duggan accompanies the performance.

Performance Details

Venue

The Channel

Arts Centre Melbourne

100 St Kilda Road, Southbank VIC 3004

Dates & Times

Friday 9 May 1pm (school matinee), 6:30pm Sat 10 May 2pm, 6:30pm 60 mins, no interval

Tickets

Blaktix $15 General $30 School bookings: $15 per person (teachers are complimentary) For schools bookings: email yirramboi@melbourne.vic.gov.au TICKETING ENQUIRIES Email: yirramboi@melbourne.vic.gov.au ACCESSIBILITY ENQUIRIES Venue Phone: 1300 182 183 Venue Email: tickets@artscentremelbourne.com.au

Photography

A Beautiful Piece of Theatre

Artist Information

Performer & Co-creator

Cian Parker (she/her), Ngāpuhi

Director & Co-creator

Laura Haughey

Musician

Andy Duggan

Technician

Alec Forbes

Photography

Andrew Duggan

Artist Bio

Cian Parker  Cian Parker (Ngāpuhi) is an award-winning performer, writer, and theatre maker. She graduated from the University of Waikato in 2018 and has toured her original work extensively. Her accolades include the Ngā Manu Pīrere award at the 2019 Te Waka Toi Awards and the 2020 New Zealand Fringe ‘Most Promising Emerging Artist’ award. She received the 2021 Wellington Theatre ‘New Playwright Award’ and a Springboard Award from The Arts Foundation. Recently, Cian worked as the Company Producer for Aotearoa’s first Deaf and hearing theatre company and co-devised their latest bilingual show Where Our Shadows Meet. Roaming Cloud Creative’s second work, All I See toured the UK and Serbia where Cian and her cast mate were the first Māori to perform at the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia Laura Haughey  Dr. Laura Haughey is a multi-award-winning theatre maker, actor trainer and director. Her theatre works have been performed on stages across Europe and Aotearoa New Zealand. Laura has taught in conservatoires and universities internationally, and convenes the theatre programme at the University of Waikato. Laura was recently awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission to explore and develop accessible embodied mindfulness-based performer training practices. She is also the Artistic Director of Equal Voices Arts, Aotearoa’s first professional touring theatre company working with Deaf and hearing artists making original bilingual and bicultural work performed in NZSL and English for D/deaf and hearing artists. Andy Duggan Andy Duggan is a multi-instrumentalist and composer specializing in music for theatre, film, and media. He composed the theme for The Gadget Show and scored the award-winning film Lad – A Yorkshire Story. A former member of platinum-selling band The Pigeon Detectives, Andy has performed at major festivals and arena venues across Europe. His theatre work includes compositions for Equal Voices Arts’ award-winning tours of At The End of My Hands and Salonica. He also teaches music composition for theatre at universities and leads workshops on breaking into theatre and film music. Andy is currently touring Sorry For Your Loss.