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This is Eden challenges beliefs about our Nation

October 24, 2019 BY

A sleek little savage waits alone in the darkness in a solitary cell, on the edge of survival in This is Eden.

FEARLESS, exhilarating, ‘nauseatingly exquisite’: This is Eden heads to the Potato Shed next month to challenge everything you thought you knew about our Nation.
In 1839, at Cascades Female Factory in Hobart Town, a sleek little savage waits alone in the darkness in a solitary cell, on the edge of survival.
Left for dead, 10,000 miles from home, she plots escape and reveals, with biting mockery, the untold tales of her captors.
In a Green Room Award nominated performance, performer, writer and theatre maker Emily Goddard and acclaimed director Susie Dee examine our dark past, parody the way we perceive it, heralding a vital call to arms.
A chance discovery of a previously unknown convict ancestor (Goddard’s great-great-great Grandmother) and the hardships she endured whilst incarcerated at Hobart’s Cascades Female Factory was the seed of inspiration for Goddard’s dark, humorous and provocative ‘anti bonnet drama’ about the rebellion and resistance of the female convicts of Van Diemen’s Land.
Book your tickets for the show on Saturday November 9 at 8pm now online at geelongaustralia.com.au/potatoshed or by calling the Box Office on 5251 1998.