17/12/2014
Darlings,
We want to take a moment to let you know that after 11 years of making work together as My Darling Patricia, we have decided to draw the company to a close at the end of the year.
We are very proud when we look back at the work we have made over the last decade:
Kissing the Mirror
Dear Pat - The Boxed Set
Politely Savage
Night Garden
Africa
Posts in the Paddock
The Piper
Mantle
Highlights have included our first major production, Politely Savage, playing in the Fairfax Studio in the Arts Centre Melbourne in 2006, ‘Africa’ touring nationally through the Mobile States program in 2011, the genuine reconciliation between families in the foyer of Posts in the Paddock at Performance Space 2011 and The Piper premiere at the Sydney Festival in 2014. We have sustained a rigorous artistic process and dialogue with artists, audiences and supporters across these years, and believe we have contributed a unique voice to the scene.
My Darling Patricia was founded by Clare Britton, Bridget Dolan, Katrina Gill, and Halcyon Macleod in 2003 and we'd like to thank all the amazing artists we have collaborated with over the last decade- we’ve been so lucky. We’d especially like to thank the artists we have turned to time and time again and whose work has helped shape My Darling Patricia- Sam Routledge, Sam James, Alice Osborne, Declan Kelly, Phil Downing and Bryony Anderson. It has been a truly wonderful conversation and we appreciate all the energy, engagement and the support we have received. Our friends and families have also been instrumental in the creation of this body of work. Thanks for all the memories!
We’d like to single out Marguerite Pepper for her amazing generosity, support and guidance since 2006 and Chris Ryan who has been there every step of the way.
There are hosts, champions, funding bodies and presenters without whom, none of the above works and collaborations would have been possible. Our thanks to the many individuals who believed in our ideas before they were made and gave us the support to bring them to fruition.
We would also like to thank the wonderful women on our Board of Management for their generosity and support.
Mantle, Falling Woman and The Piper are still available for touring through Marguerite Pepper Productions.
Check out the new vid of Mantle and if you'd like to reminisce with us, we are going to put a lot of photos up on My Darling Patricia's page in the next couple of days.
Our website will remain as an archive of the work we have made at www.mydarlingpatricia.com
Clare can be contacted on [email protected] and
Halcyon on [email protected].
Much love and thanks,
Halcyon Macleod and Clare Britton
Thank you to...
My Darling Patricia Committee of Management
Marguerite Pepper, Julianne Campbell
Erin Gough, Kristin Meagher, Chris Williams
MANTLE
Jade Dewi Tyass Tungal
Janice Muller
Jack Prest
Mark Haslam
Matt Marshall
Bridget Dolan
Tania Bowers
Chris Ryan
Alice Osborne
Robyn Backen
Sarah Crozier
Annemaree Dalziel and Lisa Havilah
Campbelltown Arts Centre- Kail Reed, Fran Barret, Jenn Blake, Michael Dagistino
The Windmill at the Rocks,
Arts Victoria, The Australia Council for the Arts
THE PIPER
Sam Routledge
Michelle Robin Anderson
Richard Manner
Sam James
Bryony Anderson
Phil Downing
Chris Ryan
Alice Osborne
Janice Muller
Anthony Ahern
Clare Grant
Solomon Thomas
Ghenoa Gela
Mark Mitchell
Josh Morris
Mirabelle Wouters
Lucy Parakhina
James Brown
Marguerite Pepper
Sydney Festival
Carriageworks
Fiona Winning
Adam McGowan
Australia Council for the Arts
Arts NSW,
Arts SA, Steve Mayhew, The Foundry Residency- Mount Gambier
POSTS IN THE PADDOCK
Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor
Lily Shearer
Fiona Foley
Sam Routledge
LeRoy Parsons
Aunty Loretta Parsley
Sam James
Chris Ryan
Djon Mundine
Declan Kelly
Phil Downing
Nadeena Dixon
Jenn Blake
Chris Twyman
Kirk Page
Katy Beckett
Marley Grovenor
Sarah Crozier and Jonothan Blackman
The family members from both sides who shared their stories
Marguerite Pepper
Moogahlin Performing Arts
Performance Space- Jeff Kahn, Ali Murphy Oats and Daniel Brine
Urban Theatre Projects- Alicia Talbot and Simon Wellington
Bundanon Artists Trust, Myer Foundation,
Australia Council for the Arts
Arts Vic
Arts NSW
Casula Powerhouse, Redfern Community Centre
AFRICA
Sam Routledge
Alice Osborne
Kat Gill
Bridget Dolan
Chris Ryan
Bindi Green
Michelle Robin Anderson
Matt Prest
Jodie LeVesconte
Anthony Ahern
Lucy Birkenshaw
Declan Kelly
Marco Cher Gibbard
Darren Kowacki
Tim Varga-McGaw
Maryanne Lynch
Tamara Rewse
Marguerite Pepper
Kate Cashel
Clara Iaccarino
Malthouse Theatre- Stephen Armstrong
Mobile States Consortia, Harley Stumm and Performing Lines,
Sydney Theatre Company
NIGHT GARDEN
Kat Gill
Sam Routledge
Margaret Cameron
Chris Ryan
Neil Simpson
Declan Kelly
Tim McGaw
Wandjina Glasheen- Brown
Danny Bos
Kristy Milliken
Marguerite Pepper
Kate Cashel
Clara Iaccarino
Arts House
Bundanon Artists Trust
Performance Space
Arts Victoria
Arts NSW
Australia Council
POLITELY SAVAGE
Kat Gill
Bridget Dolan
Cecily Hardy
Sam Routledge
Chris Ryan
Sam James
Richard Manner
Phil Downing
Clytie Smith
Anne Thompson
Alice Osborne
Jade Sims
Annabelle Osborne
Anna Sokol
Jake Stone
Marcus Teague
Marguerite Pepper
Kate Cashel
Arts NSW- Kim Spinks
PACT Centre for Emerging artists
Performance Space
Bundanon Artists Trust
Hot House Theatre
The Arts Centre Full Tilt - Vanessa Pigrum
Vitalstatistix -Maude Davey
DEAR PAT- THE BOXED SET
Phil Downing
Chris Ryan
Kat Gill
Jade Sims
Bridget Dolan
Alice Osborne
Greg Boddham Whetham
Neil Simpson
Performance Space- Fiona Winning
LiveBait Festival - Michael Cohen
KISSING THE MIRROR
Bridget Dolan
Kat Gill
Sam Routledge
Chris Ryan
Scott Wright
Adam Keeley
Steve Howarth
Phil Downing
Sam James
Tim McGaw
PACT Centre for Emerging Artists- Regina Heilmann, Chris Murphy, Tegan Richardson
Marrickville Council
Australia Council for the Arts
