Household Names
Kate Macfarlane and Cheryl Pickering, Household Names, Below North, Adelaide, March 2021
Household Names is an affectionate, personal glimpse of a female artists' work/life balance in 200 year instalments, the glorious music accompanied by a little light housework and copious cups of tea. Inspired by the 2019 birth anniversaries of Barbara Strozzi (400 years) and Clara Schumann (200 years), Household Names celebrates the life and work of these two towering musicians, and introduces a specially commissioned work from leading South Australian composer Anne Cawrse.
Household Names was first presented in concert form at Flinders University in September 2019, before being premiered in a specially created experience for the Merrijig Inn as part of the 2019 Port Fairy Spring Festival. For the 2021 Adelaide Fringe, Household Names was presented in the café lounge Below North, beneath the Freemasons Hall on North Terrace, Adelaide.
Conceived, written and directed by Cheryl Pickering
Designed by Emma O’Neill
Performed by Kate Macfarlane, Cheryl Pickering, Glenys March & Sachiko Hidaka
‘superb musicianship … wears its wit and politics lightly … memorable … will crush your heart’
The Advertiser March 2021 *****
‘excellent musicianship … this is a fabulous show full of warmth, wry humour, superb music and the celebration of female creativity which deserves to be enjoyed by a much wider audience than lovers of classical music’
The Clothesline March 2021 *****