Marisa Garreffa

The next delicious production from Mondo di Corpo is coming soon to a retail store near you, and we need your help to make it happen.

Written and Performed by Marisa Garreffa, Cured is a blackly comic tale of a village called Night, told by a woman as she butchers away at a pig to make dinner for guests who never arrive. Part performance, part cooking demonstration, the woman tells the story of a girl who lies to the village about dying in order to feel loved. She gets caught… the village is not happy.

The performance begins as a window installation on the street frontage of Hay Street. Tucked amongst the shine of new buildings and polished glass, here you will see the rusting and rotting remnants of an age long past. Tools of the old style of butchery, wooden carving blocks, rusted machines and equipment and fading striped aprons. Shining against this butchers graveyard on gleaming stainless steel will be the bones of animals, in different styles of preservation. Together they are the ghosts of deaths long past. Peer through the windows any time of the day or night, but those lucky enough to secure a ticket will enter into the butchers playground to hear a story being told.

In order to present this evocative production in an empty shop front in the city, we need to rent in all the lighting, sound and seating to transform the site into a haunting space of performance. So we need to ask you for help!

But to make sure that you get more than just good karma back in return, we have a pile of things to give away. So choose your reward and choose to support the creation evocative and challenging arts in the city. We will love you for it!


Our Thanks and Eternal Gratitude go to:

David Hall, Mandy Bubb, Oliver Wenn, Paul Malone, Fiacre Mulhall, Lucy Risdale, Alan Guest, Glenn Goodison, Sarah Nelson, Rebecca Bradley, Jarrad West, Michelle Mok, Alex Koresis, Yoga Om, Laura Jayne Henderson, Ann-Claire Larsen, Dean Laplonge, Josie Barber, Katherine McLean, Jenny Vila Karpe, Rhoda Lopez, Andrea Fernandez, Kate Hancock, Eva Grace, Lynda Soklich, Francis Italiano, Fiona Symonds, Michael McCall, Mike Nanning, Joey Ruigrok van der Werven, Ben Hancock, Ella Hetherington, Kate Bud, Rachel Riggs, Linda Chesters Labuschagne, Jay Masih, Frances Dagher, Natalie Dagher, Sam Longley, Fiona de Garis, Michael Barlow, Anonymous, Louise Wardle, Conrad Francis, Rebecca Williams, Andy Paull, Sarah Murdoch, John Carey, Adam Bennett, Gemma Cavoli, Sally McBride, Lex Randolph, Thom Smyth, Kerry O'Sullivan, Bob White, Shane Adamczak, Simon Morrison-Baldwin, Natalie Jenkins, Matty Lee, Karina Rumens, Fiona Hulton, Donald Pulford, Adriane Daff, Chris Adams, Linda Papa, Carlos Calvo, Susie Finch, Daniel Mizza, Paul Whiteley, Anna Kosky, Fiona Bruce, Julia Jenkins, Melissa Cantwell, Jacqueline Alderson, Tania Coli, Sanjeev Vij, Bruce Denny, Lara Hyams, Dimity Magnus, Alison McGregor, Iskander Sharazuddin, Michelle Weall, John Webb, Rachael Parry, Libby Klysz, Sarah Rowbottam ...

Brought to you by Mondo di Corpo with the support of Andrew Umney, Factive and Monash House.

Season runs May 17th - May 27th. To book tickets head to www.mondodicorpo.com.au.