A healing ritual. A summoning of the dead. A dance eisteddfod where the first prize is forgiveness.

Riverside Presents
A Loved Woman
By Emma Maye Gibson & Karmyn Gibson
Produced by Performing Lines in association with Griffin Theatre Company
Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival and Riverside Theatres

Emma Maye Gibson (aka Betty Grumble) is an internationally lauded performance artist-slash-sex clown, who has traveled the world stripping off her clothes and doing unprintable things in front of tens of thousands of people.

Karmyn Gibson is her mother. A former bodybuilding champion and national aerobics title-holder, who has some strong opinions about what her daughter does for a living.

So, naturally, they’ve decided to make a show together.

In A Loved Woman, Emma Maye and Karmyn reckon with their own complex history – and a fractured lineage of mother-daughter relationships, stretching back through their family. Ballet leotards stretched over bruises. Smashed dinner plates. Teenage runaways pulled into cop cars. A Loved Woman asks what we inherit from our mothers, what we pass on to our daughters, and whether two generations of women can find a way to forgive.

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CAST & CREATIVES

Produced by Performing Lines in association with Griffin Theatre Company

Emma Maye Gibson – Lead Artist and Performer
Karmyn Gibson – Lead Artist and Performer
Declan Greene – Director and Dramaturg
Daniel Herten – Sound and AV Designer
Frankie Clarke – Lighting Designer
Isabel Hudson – Set Designer
Mason Browne – Costume & Associate Set Designer
Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor – Consultant

Accessibility

In English.

Wheelchair accessible.

Companion Card accepted.

Assistive Hearing system available (FM).

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Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival, Riverside Theatres and produced by Performing Lines.

A Loved Woman was developed as part of Griffin Studio, an initiative of Griffin Theatre Company, with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and Griffin Studio donors. Development of A Loved Woman was proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and by Randwick City Council.

Special thanks to Julia Champtaloup & Andrew Rothery, The Wattle Foundation and Relationships Australia