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Breakout Residencies: Jamila Main public showing, 'How To Eat Rabbit'


Image: Jamila Main by Pamela Boutros.

Image: Jamila Main by Pamela Boutros.

Public showing

When: Sunday, July 19, 2020, 3pm

Where: The Mill Breakout Space, enter via Gunson St, Adelaide

Duration: 1 hour, including artist and audience Q&A

Cost: Free


A first stage creative development of How To Eat Rabbit, the latest play from actor and playwright Jamila Main, with actor Audrey Mason-Hyde, director/dramaturg Teddy Dunn, and movement choreographer Erin Fowler. How To Eat Rabbit asks how will we survive as our planet rockets towards climate catastrophe, and how we prioritise our own survival against our responsibility for those around us.

About the play:

How To Eat Rabbit was awarded a Merit Award from State Theatre Company of South Australia in the 2019 Young Playwrights Award. The first draft of the play was originally written in the fourteen days following the 2019 Australian Federal Election in response to Greta Thunberg and the School Strike for Climate movement.

About the artist:

Jamila Main is currently a Carclew Fellow, a Youth Advisor to Australian Theatre for Young People, a member of RUMPUS Theatre, and a Midsumma Pathways Participant. Jamila is a trained actor and award-winning playwright, and explores themes of autonomy, trust, and joy within queer and feminist dramaturgies in their work.

Jamila is a fierce advocate for people with Endometriosis with a focus on the intersection of queerness and disability. Jamila recently created an Inclusion Letter Template to request Endometriosis organisations and support groups improve the inclusivity beyond cis heterosexual women with Endo; the Template is currently being translated into Italian and Swedish.

Bookings are essential, please make sure you are at the venue and ready for the showing.