A summoning of the dead. A dance eisteddfod where the first prize is forgiveness.
Riverside Presents
A Loved Woman
By Emma Maye Gibson & Karmyn Gibson
Produced by Performing Lines in association with Griffin Theatre Company
Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival and Riverside Theatres
Emma Maye Gibson (aka Betty Grumble) is an internationally lauded performance artist-slash-sex clown, who has traveled the world stripping off her clothes and doing unprintable things in front of tens of thousands of people.
Karmyn Gibson is her mother. A former bodybuilding champion and national aerobics title-holder, who has some strong opinions about what her daughter does for a living.
So, naturally, they’ve decided to make a show together.
In A Loved Woman , Emma Maye and Karmyn reckon with their own complex history – and a fractured lineage of mother-daughter relationships, stretching back through their family. Ballet leotards stretched over bruises. Smashed dinner plates. Teenage runaways pulled into cop cars. A Loved Woman asks what we inherit from our mothers, what we pass on to our daughters, and whether two generations of women can find a way to forgive.
CAST & CREATIVES
Produced by Performing Lines in association with Griffin Theatre Company
- Emma Maye Gibson – Lead Artist and Performer
- Karmyn Gibson – Lead Artist and Performer
- Declan Greene – Director and Dramaturg
- Daniel Herten – Sound and AV Designer
- Frankie Clarke – Lighting Designer
- Isabel Hudson – Set Designer
- Mason Browne – Costume & Associate Set Designer
- Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor – Consultant
Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival, Riverside Theatres and produced by Performing Lines.
A Loved Woman was developed as part of Griffin Studio, an initiative of Griffin Theatre Company, with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and Griffin Studio donors. Development of A Loved Woman was proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and by Randwick City Council.
Special thanks to Julia Champtaloup & Andrew Rothery, The Wattle Foundation and Relationships Australia
