Archive - Siren Theatre Company
Siren Theatre Company, Kate Gaul, and Early Collaborations
I first met Kate Gaul in 1990 while performing in Wallflowering at the Peacock Theatre, Hobart, in Salamanca Place. At the time, none of us could have known how significant her directorial voice would become within Australian theatre.
Several years later, while attending a production at the Sydney Opera House, I noticed a familiar blonde head several rows in front of me and immediately recognised her. It was Kate. That chance moment marked the beginning of a series of collaborations that would span some of her formative directorial works.
I was fortunate to work with Kate on several productions during the early years of Siren Theatre Company. Each work was powerful, distinct, and formally ambitious, demanding different movement languages and physical vocabularies. These productions drew deeply on the expressive potential of the body, and I was engaged variously as Movement Director or Movement Consultant, responding to the specific dramaturgical needs of each piece.
The works included Hard Swallow (1998), Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries (2001), The Gates of Egypt (2007), and Fox (2010). Fox, produced by Monkey Baa in association with Siren Theatre Company, was the final production I worked on with Kate before leaving Sydney for an extended period.
Since that time, Kate Gaul has built an extraordinary national and international reputation as a director of fine theatre works. Looking back, it is a privilege to have been part of that early creative period, contributing movement and physical storytelling to productions that continue to resonate within Australian theatre history.
Selected Siren Theatre Company Collaborations
Fox (2010), Monkey Baa in association with Siren Theatre Company
Movement Consultant: Raymond Mather
Director: Kate Gaul
The Gates of Egypt (2007), Belvoir St Theatre
Movement contribution: Raymond Mather
Director: Kate Gaul
Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries (2001), Downstairs Belvoir St Theatre
Movement Director: Raymond Mather
Director: Kate Gaul
Hard Swallow (1998), Downstairs Belvoir St Theatre
Movement Director: Raymond Mather
Director: Kate Gaul
Siren Theatre Company, FOX (2010)
https://www.sirentheatreco.com/fox-2010
Siren Theatre Company - Production Archive
https://www.sirentheatreco.com/past-productions-1
Siren Theatre Company, Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries (2001)
https://www.sirentheatreco.com/connie-kevin-2001
Siren Theatre Company, Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries postcard (2001)
Siren Theatre Company, Hard Swallow (1998)
https://www.sirentheatreco.com/hard-swallow-1998
Siren Theatre Company, Hard Swallow postcard (1998)
This page is included in the ART1 Archive, preserving professional and cultural work undertaken before ART1.
View other works and collaborations prior to ART1 in the Selected Credits.