As a theatremaker, writer, performer and director I work to bring extraordinary stories to life on stage and in public spaces using visual theatre, puppetry, song and projection. My latest work 'Phantasmagoria' has been programmed at Theatreworks, Naarm (Melbourne) for 2 week season in September 2021. I have toured locally and internationally with Black Hole Theatre, Snuff Puppets, performed and puppeteered for Lyric Opera, Museum Victoria and independent theatre companies. In 2015 I performed in 'Ngalyak and the Flood' a new intercultural dance/puppetry work at the International Puppetry Festival of Charleville-Meziers, France for Big Mamma Productions. I co-founded 'The Divination Agency' with Kat Taylor, an interactive public performance using a dictionary to divine the future, painting and a typewritten poetry.
Big Country Puppets and K.E.E.P.
Over a series of community workshops in Broome, the giant pandanus, frilled neck lizerd, gouldian finch and pelican were created. They celebrate the amazing lifeforms of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimbelery. They made their debut in 2013 with the Broome Dreamtime Dancers and then at the Shinju Matsuri Festival on the streets of Broome, accompanied by a the Jila Junk Band.
In 2015, KEEP -the Kimberley Environmental Education Puppetry project will begin it's pilot sessions in Kimberley communities in conjunction with young people indigenous ranger groups, scientists and environmental educators. We have been successful in sourcing initial funding from the State Natural Resource Management Community Fund
Over a series of community workshops in Broome, the giant pandanus, frilled neck lizerd, gouldian finch and pelican were created. They celebrate the amazing lifeforms of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimbelery. They made their debut in 2013 with the Broome Dreamtime Dancers and then at the Shinju Matsuri Festival on the streets of Broome, accompanied by a the Jila Junk Band.
In 2015, KEEP -the Kimberley Environmental Education Puppetry project will begin it's pilot sessions in Kimberley communities in conjunction with young people indigenous ranger groups, scientists and environmental educators. We have been successful in sourcing initial funding from the State Natural Resource Management Community Fund
The Divination Agency
Miss Print and Ms Divine present "The Divination Agency" . Armed with a mystical dictionary, brushes, a typewriter and lots of ink, The Divination Agency brings a corner of magical chaos to festivals and stages across Australia. Explore your present or future through images or the typed word. Part homage to Ms Divine’s spiritualist grandmother, the Agency is narrative therapy meets the occult whilst irreverently pawing at the English language.
Performing in public spaces, on stage and at a festival near you......
Learn more at : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=397462073787426&fref=ts,
http://divinationagency.blogspot.com.au
Performing in public spaces, on stage and at a festival near you......
Learn more at : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=397462073787426&fref=ts,
http://divinationagency.blogspot.com.au
Snuff Puppets Giant Puppet Company
Puppeteer : South Korea, Melbourne, Canberra 2006 - 2010
http://www.snuffpuppets.com/
Bilby : Independent Puppetry production 2011
'Digging for fire'
A Stories from the Ground Microtheatre production
Shadow puppetry
Melbourne, 2007
Writing, Direction and puppetry : Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Puppeteers: Raku Pitt, Stephen Mushin, Emily Conolan
"Once upon a time there was a collector…she would gather up stories and create worlds in her head….of places she‘d never been, people she‘d never seen, or maybe would never see again. Sometimes these stories were the barest fragments, and when they were knitted together there were holes which the collector filled with imaginings"
A Stories from the Ground Microtheatre production
Shadow puppetry
Melbourne, 2007
Writing, Direction and puppetry : Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Puppeteers: Raku Pitt, Stephen Mushin, Emily Conolan
"Once upon a time there was a collector…she would gather up stories and create worlds in her head….of places she‘d never been, people she‘d never seen, or maybe would never see again. Sometimes these stories were the barest fragments, and when they were knitted together there were holes which the collector filled with imaginings"
