Cygnets
Produced and presented by: The Liminal Space
Theatreworks (2023)
Written and developed by Delta Brooks, Rebekah Carton and Harry Haynes
Directed by Harry Haynes
Produced and presented by: The Liminal Space
16 - 26 August 2023
Explosives Factory, Theatre Works, St Kilda
“You said you would come back for me, all those years ago you promised and yet I’m still waiting...”
Two sisters born of the same egg.
Helen of Troy. The face that launched a thousand ships.
Clytemnestra of Sparta. Killed her husband in the bath after the war.
Now at the end of everything the sisters reunite; retracing the steps to the shared dance of their lives and the childhood
history never allowed them to have.
The Liminal Space reunite with theatre makers Delta Brooks and Rebekah Carton to uncover the unexplored lives of
these siblings in this meditation on family, desire and the inescapable power of memory.
“The performances by Rebekah Carton and Delta Brooks are nothing short of magnificent… an intelligent production that shines a spotlight on women, family and motherhood by two women whose stories are rarely mentioned or made known.”
My Melbourne Arts
Nothing in this space is comfortable, but everything has impact. Everything is beautiful, but nothing is pretty.
Cygnets is a story about women. It is about the person behind the visage. It shows women unveiled from the male gaze. It shows us.
What Did She Think?
WRITTEN BY
Delta Brooks
Rebekah Carton
Harry Haynes
After Aeschylus, Euripides, Homer, Seneca, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Marlow, Racine.
DIRECTION
Harry Haynes
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Maeve Hook
PRODUCER
Basil Sikiotis
SET & COSTUME DESIGN
Juliette Whitney
LIGHTING
Nicholas Moloney
SOUND
Miles O’Neil
DRAMATURG
Alanah Guiry
STAGE MANAGER
Brigette Jennings
PERFORMER/CAMERA OPERATOR
Thomas Richards
PHOTOGRPAHY
Matto Lucas