The Changelings is an existential coming-of-age quest about Christianity, bisexuality and becoming your mother – three issues that monologuing frontwoman, Charlotte Salusinszky, tried to keep separate. That is, until one fateful viewing of the film, ‘Freaky Friday’.
Part-concert, part-sermon, with a live score by Bonnie Stewart and Micaela Ellis, The Changelings is a genre-bending performance about a longing for the fairy realm that never went away.
Premiering and commissioned as part of PACT's mainstage program, The Changelings follows on from Saluszinky's "rigorous and fearless" (Kevin Jackson) debut at KXT in 2022 and will speak to anyone who has had to leave people or communities to redefine themselves anew.
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Wednesday 19 June, 7.30pm - PREVIEW
Thursday 20 June, 7.30pm
Friday 21 June, 7.30pm - Auslan Interpretation + Post-show artist talk
Saturday 22 June, 7.30pm
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Written and performed by: Charlotte Salusinszky
Director: Zoë Hollyoak
Musicians and Co-Composers: Micaela Ellis & Bonnie Stewart
Sound Director: Rowan Yeomans
Production Design: Hailley Hunt
Lighting Design: Frankie Clarke
With special thanks to Liliana Occhiuto, Liana Molina and Ailsa Liu and The New Age Noise Collective.
This work was commissioned by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists
The Changelings is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, and Creative Practice Lab, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney. This project was previously supported through a residency at Griffin Theatre as a shortlisted project for the Create NSW Incubator Fellowship (Theatre), and a residency at QTheatre.
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Strobing Lights.
Use of haze, smoke and fog.
Religious and Queer trauma.
Production Photos
Photographed by Philip Erbacher
