when: 21 August 2023 - 22 September 2023 | venue: The Concourse Pavilion | cost: Adult unreserved seating (18+): $39.00 Concession unreserved seating (Students and pensioners): $37.00 Child unreserved seating (15 and under): $33.00 Family unreserved seating (2 Adults 2 Children): $132.00 Group 10+ unreserved seating: $23.00 | address: 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood 2067
published: 21 Aug 2023, 5 min read
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A PYT Fairfield and In Wild Company Production
by Mara Knežević, Josipa Draisma and Sime Knežević
The Hen House is a new music theatre work weaving extraordinary, humorous and tragic multi-lingual stories of European-Australian female migrant factory workers. Paired with distinctly live and loud original music played by an electrifying all-female rock band, The Hen House elevates diverse women's voices as powerful and hugely significant to Australia's social and economic history.A fierce, funny, and electrifying experience.It's 1976. Sherbet's Howzat is No.1 on the Charts. Industries are booming, and it's migrant women who are cashing in. Pavica, a young Croatian mother is dressed in her crisp white uniform, smiling proudly on the production line, elbows deep in chicken carcasses, loving her job and her new Australian life.Mila, however, does NOT love her job. In fact, she despises it. The screaming chooks, screeching machines, not to mention the tenosynovitis that plagues the production line. For her, this factory is a hell house. Mila is hellbent on taking this chicken business, and ripping it to bits.Pavica and Mila are best friends. They need each other to survive this strange feathery world of work. But it might also be the very thing that completely drives them apart.Created and performed by dynamic sister-duo Josipa Draisma (Founder/Creative Director, In Wild Company) and Mara Knezevic (Playlist, PYT Fairfield), with director Anthea Williams (Hir, Sydney Theatre Awards Best Director), The Hen House is a fierce and funny migrant story that pays homage to the stories of European migration in the 60s and 70s and explores the dignity and comedy of the female working-class experience.
This event is part of Chatswood Culture Bites 2023, Willoughby City Council's innovative program of music, theatre, comedy and more in Chatswood CBD.
Creative Team
Co-creators/Performers - Josipa Draisma and Mara Kneževic
Director - Anthea Williams
Musical Director - Zeljko Papic
Co-Writer & Dramaturg - Sime Kneževic
Choreographer - Emma Saunders
Producer - PYT Fairfield
Designer - Isabel Hudson
Images by Anna Kucera
- Friday, 22 September 2023 | 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Concourse Pavilion, 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, 2067, View Map
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A PYT Fairfield and In Wild Company Production
by Mara Knežević, Josipa Draisma and Sime Knežević
The Hen House is a new music theatre work weaving extraordinary, humorous and tragic multi-lingual stories of European-Australian female migrant factory workers. Paired with distinctly live and loud original music played by an electrifying all-female rock band, The Hen House elevates diverse women's voices as powerful and hugely significant to Australia's social and economic history.A fierce, funny, and electrifying experience.It's 1976. Sherbet's Howzat is No.1 on the Charts. Industries are booming, and it's migrant women who are cashing in. Pavica, a young Croatian mother is dressed in her crisp white uniform, smiling proudly on the production line, elbows deep in chicken carcasses, loving her job and her new Australian life.Mila, however, does NOT love her job. In fact, she despises it. The screaming chooks, screeching machines, not to mention the tenosynovitis that plagues the production line. For her, this factory is a hell house. Mila is hellbent on taking this chicken business, and ripping it to bits.Pavica and Mila are best friends. They need each other to survive this strange feathery world of work. But it might also be the very thing that completely drives them apart.Created and performed by dynamic sister-duo Josipa Draisma (Founder/Creative Director, In Wild Company) and Mara Knezevic (Playlist, PYT Fairfield), with director Anthea Williams (Hir, Sydney Theatre Awards Best Director), The Hen House is a fierce and funny migrant story that pays homage to the stories of European migration in the 60s and 70s and explores the dignity and comedy of the female working-class experience.
This event is part of Chatswood Culture Bites 2023, Willoughby City Council's innovative program of music, theatre, comedy and more in Chatswood CBD.
Creative Team
Co-creators/Performers - Josipa Draisma and Mara Kneževic
Director - Anthea Williams
Musical Director - Zeljko Papic
Co-Writer & Dramaturg - Sime Kneževic
Choreographer - Emma Saunders
Producer - PYT Fairfield
Designer - Isabel Hudson
Images by Anna Kucera
- Friday, 22 September 2023 | 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Concourse Pavilion, 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, 2067, View Map
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The Hen House 2023 is on 21 August 2023 - 22 September 2023. The opening hours are: . Conveniently located in Chatswood.
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