Lifelines

Various People Inc's Lifelines celebrates the courage of Douglas Mawson and his Antarctic expeditioners, and of all those who strive in the face of challenge. Unaccompanied voices soar and intertwine in music by Richard Chew, Jodie O’Regan and Anne Cawrse. Interwoven with the music are fragments of memories and experiences, the sounds of wind and ice, and a stunning Antarctic videoscape.

Performed by Kate Macfarlane, Mark Oates, Emlyn O’Regan, Jodie O’Regan & Cheryl Pickering

 Presented by Various People Inc at The Lab at LIGHT as part of the SA Museum STEAM Incubator series, July 2021.

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Household Names

Ironing boards and school lunches battle with harpsichords and vocal scores in this affectionate, personal glimpse of female artists' work/life balance in 200-year installments, celebrating the lives and work of towering musicians Barbara Strozzi and Clara Schumann and introducing new work by South Australian composer Anne Cawrse.

Port Fairy Spring Festival 2019

Adelaide Fringe 2021

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Orpheus Underground

Intimate audiences join five singers and a lute player at the wedding party for Orpheus and Eurydice, before journeying into the Underworld on a desperate musical rescue mission.

Created for the Treasury Tunnels beneath central Adelaide.

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P’opera

A streetscape opera for the modern day. Singers in coffee queues, at bus stops, in shopping arcades, share familiar everyday experiences through well-loved operatic melodies.

Poignant, humorous, unexpected.

Winner of inaugural Artspitch award, supported by Arts South Australia, City of Adelaide and Adelaide Arcade

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La Virtuosissima Cantatrice

A Baroque cabaret, created by Cheryl Pickering for Baroque specialist Kate Macfarlane, telling the stories of extraordinary women in the world of seventeenth century Venice and Florence, and honouring a time when a woman choosing to sing was an act of defiance.

Winner, Best Production & Best Music, Adelaide Cabaret Fringe 2018

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The Velvet Gentleman

The odd story of Erik Satie (some of it is true…)

An actor, a singer and a pianist pay an affectionate tribute to this eccentric composer.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2012

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Instructions for an Imaginary Man

Originally created for the Victorian Prison inside Lincoln Cathedral, for an actor, a string quintet and two singers. A poetic glimpse into the experiences of prisoners of conscience.

Adelaide Festival of Arts 2012

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The Magic Flute

A circus-based extravaganza, created with Tutti Arts and Cirkidz. Opera singers, artists identifying with a disability, and a circus youth troupe create a kaleidoscopic world of mystery, humour and bold endeavour.

Operatu, State Opera Studios 2011

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Vesalius: A Requiem

Renaissance anatomy, the Catholic mass for the dead and the modern autopsy collide in this extraordinary piece of choral theatre.

Listed in Top Ten Shows for 2010, The Advertiser

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The Shouting Fence

A choral theatre work for community choirs, professional singers and percussion, highlighting the experiences of communities in the Golan Heights separated by wartime land annexations.

Adelaide Fringe 2009

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