Stones In Her Mouth
Image: Lemi Ponifasio. Photo: Christian Westerback
Carriageworks salutes Lemi Ponifasio in his newest theatre production Stones In Her Mouth.
Superficially thought of as a highly political and resilient work, Ponifasio describes it humbly as, “A very powerful medium for women to say what they want to the world right now”.
He continues: “The performance is never a confrontation to win over the audience. We’re simply there to serve the space, to activate the space. You’re sitting there holding your own body and you contemplate your own existence.”
This production promises to contribute nothing but positivity to the arts.
“You make art in order to create a vision of life, because you’re dissatisfied with what you see and what you experience. The world is not good enough so we have to create a new world, a new feeling, a new dimension of knowing, seeing, and experiencing. If the quality of our lives or the way we look at the world doesn’t improve from creation, then we should stop doing it,” explains Ponifasio.
The message embedded into this production is self-reflection and a connection to one’s own existence during the powerful ten-piece female ensemble.
“Creation is a means of silence. It’s beauty taking revenge,” says Ponifasio. (RM)
May 28-31, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh, $35, carriageworks.com.au
BY ROCIO MENDEZ
