THE DIRTY MOTHER
The Dirty Mother is an act of civil disobedience. It's electric guitar, exploding pomegranates, and massive pink pants. A celebration of friendship and reinvention, The Dirty Mother is a story about imagining yourself beyond crisis.
"Funny, heart-wrenching and raw" ★★★★ FringeFeed, 2020
This intimate story takes us into Michelle's post-natal Underworld where a Giant Midwife triggers a disco-strip-dance and Hugh Grant arrives as history's most distracted birth partner. Out of the debris of disaster, this mother may seem dirty, but she's alive and ripe for telling the tale "nice ladies" are not supposed to tell. A birth rite for the 21st century with the gas and air turned up to the max!
- Nominated BEST ACTOR, Performing Arts Award WA 2021
- Nominated BEST THEATRE, Melbourne Fringe 2020
Presented by: MICHELLE HALL
Michelle is a performance maker living on Whadjuk Boodjar. Training includes devising with Teatro de Complicite (UK), physical theatre with Pan Theatre (FRA), Laban London, Café Reason Butoh (UK) and Forum Theatre with Cardboard Citizens (UK). Her current practice centres on embodied comic poetry with teacher Giovanni Fusetti (IT).
Credits include Walking on Eggshells (Oxford Youth Theatre), Scarlet Ribbons: An Intergenerational Loneliness Project (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre), The Lorax (Oxford Youth Dance), The Land That Disappeared (Peepolykus), Journeys To Freedom (Afro Karibean Kultural Heritage Initiative), Migration of Me (Lab Crea), MOTHERFESTO (Blue Room Theatre). A senior teaching artist with Barking Gecko, Michelle is studying an MA Theatre, VCA, University of Melbourne.