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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:54
PM
Subject: celebrating IMD - Australian
Premiere - Singing the Bones
Dear List
to celebrate IMD in Sydney - the Valhalla theatre
has been booked (and 300 seats up for grabs) for this FABULOUS
movie........bring along midwives, daughters, mothers, friends, friends
daughters......even a bloke or two .........and come to Glebe (Valhalla
theatre ) on
The Australian Premiere of Singing the Bones
Sunday May
5th,
3pm - 7pm
Valhalla theatre, Blebe Point rd ,
GLEBE
tickets (inc afternoon tea) $ 22
or
$170 for 10 from
NSWMA tel: 0292819522
BLURB to follow
"The mystery, beauty and political turmoil surrounding what should be
nature's simplest gift, childbirth, are explored in this
kaleidoscope of
storytelling. SINGING THE BONES brings Canadian
writer-performer
Caitlin Hicks' acclaimed one woman stage play
beautifully to film with
Hicks
Reprising her triple-threat
performance.
As meg, a spirited Midwife practising illegally in
rural Canada, she
illuminates reasons why women "do not need to be
saved by childbirth". As
Nicole, a feisty young mother pregnant with
twins, she howls out the
sociological horrors and hilarity of he
childbirth experience. As Sara, an
ageing obstetrician, she embodies
tragedy transformed into pure survival.
In a deeply layered and visually arresting production by Gordon
Halloran,
employing his camera as almost another character in the drama,
the
interlocking tales of the three women become a single narrative
that is
not just a woman's story, but an unforgettable window into
the human
experience"
D Quinones, Mill Valley Film Festival"
