Motherhood:Unspeakable, Unspoken
is a ground-breaking show that gives its audience permission to think about both the light and the dark of motherhood. Drawing from brutally honest interviews with both mothers and the children of mothers, it shines a light into the dark corners of motherhood and manages, with great care and wry humour, to dig deep into a world that is bizarrely unspoken. In so doing, offers hope, comfort and enlightenment to us all, be we parents or the children of parents.´s presence and beauty, regardless of his many challenges.
BIOGRAPHY
Joanna Rosenfeld is a German born theatre maker, performer, artist, facilitator and mother, who has been making solo performance pieces for 20 years, investigating themes like Exile/ Immigration, Urban Isolation and Motherhood.
Joanna started exploring themes of motherhood in 2010, interviewing and recording mothers of all ages, and presenting a Scratch performance at the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton. She developed the piece slowly, over time, and in 2013 started to collaborate with Kath Burlinson. In 2015 she presented an 18 minute extract at the Works, Brighton Dome, before gaining funding to research, develop and produce the performance. The piece was previewed in November 2016 at the Rialto Theatre, Brighton with the title 'Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken' and has toured regionally since then.
Joanna is beginning to investigate the theme of Death for future work.
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CREDITS
Creative team
Performed and Co-devised by Joanna Rosenfeld
Directed and Co-devised by Kath Burlinson
Designed by Ellan Parry
Original Score by Sioned Jones
Produced by Tessa Howell
Dramaturgy by Lou Cope
Set Build by Duncan Henderson
Movement Consultant Janine Fletcher
Digital Art Consultant Alinah Azadeh
Website Fortune Cats Limited Neil Shardcore
Photography Daniel Lawton
Duncan, Sioned, Ellan, Lou and Tessa worked as contributors, collaborators, co-creators and co- facilitators and were at no point confined to their specialty.
