HOME is about belonging. With her audience, Margi and son Travis step into a re-imagined world, playing with changing relationships while exploring decades of memories and their changing landscapes. Using autobiographical stories and mythology, Brown Ash’s script moves from Australia to Egypt and to USA, returning again and again to Brisbane in the search for belonging. Taking on the writer/performer’s multiple lived perspectives as a daughter, wife, mother, actor and therapist, HOME considers how our past, present and future can impact on one another, and how with a shift in perspective, stories can change to become empowering. One of the script’s central threads is a re-telling of the Egyptian Myth of Isis and Osiris – a story of love, betrayal and re-birth – that extends the reach of Margi’s firsthand narratives by connecting the story of her individual transformations to this mythic tale of resurrection. The script also reports, via a spoken and musical score by Travis Ash, on world conflicts and local stories of grief and loss, running parallel and sometimes in contrast to the autobiographical experiences.

Venue Format
Hall, Black Box Venue
Technical Rating
C
Touring Party
4
Considerations

A family show; empowering for mothers and fathers; empowering for people who have reached their Third Age; empowering for people who feel like they have not reached their potential.

Margi Brown Ash has very recently formed the ensemble company "Force of Circumstance," the only professional and intentional Intergenerational Theatre Company in Australia to her knowledge. In USA there are over 700 such companies. FOC's objective is to begin the cross pollination between the generations and multiple arts practices in order to access a variety of target audiences thereby enriching the community. Margi is a well known theatre maker in Brisbane, who has focused on the healing power of art to make change and her latest project helps address the growing issue of the increasing number of older people in our society who feel excluded due to age.

Company Website
4change.com.au

Unique Selling Point

A 3 hour workshop is available for the community before the show, where participants come together to collage, and then out of the collage, write stories about HOME> these stories can be incorporated into the performance itself, either performed by the community members or if they are too shy, by Travis or Margi. The show embraces the community and embeds it into the landscape.

Community Engagement

Workshop: Relational ImpulseTraining: a way of connecting with each other playfully. Collaging: 'rip and stick' and then moving into creative writing stimulated by the collage. Performing/reading the writing within the performance itself this is open to all age groups.