AustLit

'Three Marys melds music, myth and imagination to create a moving story of exile, survival and hope. 

'An international collaboration by award-winning artists composer Andrée Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans, this fully staged chamber opera tells an intergenerational story of a family of women who must flee for their lives. 

'Inspired by the French medieval legend of the biblical Three Marys, the tale follows the perilous journey of Maria, Magdalena and Sarah-Marie as they are banished from their homeland and forced out to sea in an oarless boat. 

'On their journey they encounter the opera’s Teen Chorus, the spirits of refugee children lost at sea – their memories and their names slipping away. Only Marzoug the fisherman is anchored to the land, by his promise to honour the stories of those thrown back by the ocean. He keeps watch. 

'Stripped to the raw elements of exile, the ocean, and survival, the women’s voices echo across the ages as people from all backgrounds still undertake desperate ocean journeys in search of refuge.'

Source: Production blurb.

'‘Listen to Me’ is a collection of songs, words and music made in response to the current debate in Australia about gendered violence. It contains factual quotes, personal stories and originally commissioned lyrics by Donna Abela, Eunice Andrada, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alison Croggon, Candy Royalle and Ania Walwicz, with Hilary Bell as the project dramaturg.' (Production summary)

'Dreaming Transportation is a contemporary music theatre work that reveals the little documented experience of colonised European women in Australia. Popular, folk, spoken and operatic voices combine with elements of contemporary performance and gallery exhibition to create rich vocal portraits of ordinary and extraordinary women.'

Source: Promotional blurb, Sydney Festival 2003.