Writer/ Performer: Liz Skitch

Director: Maude Davey

Set Designer: Lara Week

Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre

Sound Designer: Chris Wenn

Movement Advisor: Steph Keheo

Photographer: Nayt Houseman

Remount fee – $4,800
Weekly fee – $2,940
Per performance fee – $1,000
Moved reading – $500

Special offer: Moved reading and workshop package for Showcase Vic delegates (offer expires 30th June 2019) – $400

Artform: theatre / interdisiplinary / hybrid

Target Audience

Specific: Mothers & parents 25–65

Wider Appeal: Comedy lovers, creative women, adventurous theatre goers

Technical Specifications

Technical rating: D

Theatre formats: Black box, flat floor, hall, thrust. Could be adapted to proscenium arch.

Bump-in time: 3 hours (audio), including testing, tuning and quiet time.

Bump-out time: 2 hours
 

In-brief lighting requirements: The production is designed to work with 2 dimmer racks, but a console that can accommodate 24 Channels of conventional fixtures as well as several Channels of LED fixtures is required.
 

Below are the touring LX requirements for Mothermorphosis:

Independent control of houselights at operator position is required. If this is unavailable, extra fixtures should be rigged to make this possible – 2 x 500w Floods should suffice, depending on the size of the venue.

The production will tour with a number of practical fixtures – some desk lamps that are used as footlights, a standard lamp, and a hanging pendant lamp.

A generic touring LX design will be made available to venues prior to arrival.

Presenter is to have pre-rigged and coloured all fixtures. Presenter is to supply colour.

In-Brief Audio Requirements: The minimum basic requirement for any presenter is a stereo PA system with the capacity to take input from a laptop headphone output.
 

Book award winning comedian and theatre maker Liz Skitch to visit your community for a creative development weekend. In the morning, Liz will run a workshop with local creative mums on new ways of finding your voice as a writer and bringing your story to life, real or imagined. Then after lunch, Liz will conduct a moved reading of the show followed by a post show forum about maintaining your creativity and your sanity as a mum.

This presentation will be a ‘moved reading’ of MOTHERMORPHISIS instead of a full-scale production. Please rest assured that in the ‘moved reading’ the artist will present the full work with all costumes, props, choreography, full sound design and even the live chicken! The only difference is that it will be presented WITHOUT the full lighting design (just a very basic rig to wash the stage In light), it will be performed with house lights rather than with the audience in darkness (to provide a relaxed environment where babes in arms and small children feel welcome), a play area with astro turf and cushions will be set up for toddlers to run around in and the actor will sometimes have her script in hand (because this performing mum is sleep deprived and time poor!)

Cost: $700 (for Showcase Vic delegates a special rate of $400 – a 43% discount – is available until June 30, 2019)

Suitable Spaces: rehearsal room, theatre stage, hall or meeting room.

Capacity: Workshop up to 20 Participants. Moved Reading up to 80.
 

Book award winning comedian and theatre maker Liz Skitch to visit your community for a creative development weekend. In the morning, Liz will run a workshop with local creative mums on new ways of finding your voice as a writer and bringing your story to life, real or imagined. Then after lunch, Liz will conduct a moved reading of the show followed by a post show forum about maintaining your creativity and your sanity as a mum.

This presentation will be a ‘moved reading’ of MOTHERMORPHISIS instead of a full-scale production. Please rest assured that in the ‘moved reading’ the artist will present the full work with all costumes, props, choreography, full sound design and even the live chicken! The only difference is that it will be presented WITHOUT the full lighting design (just a very basic rig to wash the stage In light), it will be performed with house lights rather than with the audience in darkness (to provide a relaxed environment where babes in arms and small children feel welcome), a play area with astro turf and cushions will be set up for toddlers to run around in and the actor will sometimes have her script in hand (because this performing mum is sleep deprived and time poor!)

Cost: $700 (for Showcase Vic delegates a special rate of $400 – a 43% discount – is available until June 30, 2019)

Suitable Spaces: rehearsal room, theatre stage, hall or meeting room.

Capacity: Workshop up to 20 Participants. Moved Reading up to 80.
 

Book award winning comedian and theatre maker Liz Skitch to visit your community for a creative development weekend. In the morning, Liz will run a workshop with local creative mums on new ways of finding your voice as a writer and bringing your story to life, real or imagined. Then after lunch, Liz will conduct a moved reading of the show followed by a post show forum about maintaining your creativity and your sanity as a mum.

This presentation will be a ‘moved reading’ of MOTHERMORPHISIS instead of a full-scale production. Please rest assured that in the ‘moved reading’ the artist will present the full work with all costumes, props, choreography, full sound design and even the live chicken! The only difference is that it will be presented WITHOUT the full lighting design (just a very basic rig to wash the stage In light), it will be performed with house lights rather than with the audience in darkness (to provide a relaxed environment where babes in arms and small children feel welcome), a play area with astro turf and cushions will be set up for toddlers to run around in and the actor will sometimes have her script in hand (because this performing mum is sleep deprived and time poor!)

Cost: $700 (for Showcase Vic delegates a special rate of $400 – a 43% discount – is available until June 30, 2019)

Suitable Spaces: rehearsal room, theatre stage, hall or meeting room.

Capacity: Workshop up to 20 Participants. Moved Reading up to 80.

Interviews & Collaboration

Tell your local stories and engage young mothers directly by including a session of one-on-one 30 min interviews with Liz Skitch to share personal experiences of Motherhood. Please note the interview will focusing on the early days from pregnancy to birth, breast feeding to changes in identity, finding balance to losing control, love, joy, loss and laughter.

Liz will record the interviews and snippets of these collected stories may feed into the sound design of MOTHERMORPHOSIS which features a soundtrack of the voices of a wide cross section of mothers and grandmothers.

Please note, Liz will seek permission from participants before including their voice and words in the piece.

Cost: $150 (up to 2 hours) $200 full day. Interviews are available as an add-on to the Workshop, Moved Reading and Post Show Forum package.

Suitable Spaces: Small, quiet, warm room.

Capacity: one participant per 30 mins to 1 hr (bookings need to be organised by community in advance).

Physical Comedy Workshop

Liz Skitch will run a 90 min high energy drama workshop introducing participants to clowning, Physical Comedy and the art of satire.

Cost: $200. This workshop is available as an add-on to the Workshop, Moved Reading and Post Show Forum package.

Suitable Spaces: rehearsal room, theatre stage, hall or meeting room.

Capacity: Up to 30 participants.

Writing For Comedy Masterclass

Liz will run a 90 min masterclass for local writers where we put the pen to the page and unleash our inner stand up or comic storyteller.

Cost: $120. This masterclass is available as an add-on to the Workshop, Moved Reading and Post Show Forum package.

Suitable Spaces: meeting room, rehearsal room or even a local cafe with a big table!

Capacity: Up to 12 participants.