Mother’s Blood

Mother’s Blood, a new theatre work currently in script development with Perth Creative Hub. The script has undergone a series of development sessions with actors and a director, allowing the text, movement language, and staging to evolve through rehearsal and performance exploration.

Blending poetic writing, movement performance, soundscape, and visual storytelling, the work explores the fractured relationship between a mother and daughter separated in early childhood and reunited years later under the weight of trauma, memory, shame, addiction, and longing. The piece moves fluidly between realism, dreamscape, psychological interior worlds, and embodied memory.

As a writer and multidisciplinary artist, the project draws together my background in poetic writing, visual art, and movement-based performance practice. The work is informed by my background in trauma-informed practice, centring emotional embodiment, memory, survival, and the complexities of intergenerational trauma. Through experimental theatrical language and physical storytelling, the project examines themes of motherhood, abandonment, identity, class, desire, addiction, and cultural shame.

This work is also connected to the Zya Community project Walk With Story, which centres lived experience, connection, creativity, and collective storytelling through community-based practice.

Centred in mental health recovery and socially conscious practice, the project aims to create an emotionally immersive theatrical experience while contributing to broader conversations around healing, voice, and representation for marginalised communities.