A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing
2021
Pietà (Circa 1499) Projected onto 'Mother' in A Girl is A Half Formed Thing.
Creative Team
Director: Éadaoin Fox
Stage Manager: Sean Crowley
Set and Costume: Shauna Nolan
Sound Design: Ruairi Burke
Cast
Girl: Georgia Swan
"A I am tired. Too full of stuff I've done. I'll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to,"
Iconoclastic Review: How can Image/Art/Paintings distort personhood and psychology?
Through the lens of a girl coming of age, in a time of extreme social and legal reform, the cruelty and repressive effects of Catholic influence in Irish society in the 1980s is revealed in this text.
For the graduate show at Royal Holloway Éadaoin explored this text through the archetypical way women in Irish society were organised against the barometer of the Madonna-Whore dichotomy.
Through the exploration of visual embodiments of The Virgin Mary and Eve, and sonic disruptions contesting the binary reduction of women to two archetypes, the danger of viewing women in this way was revealed through the performance.
Éadaoin was given a high distinction for this piece, (a mark of 88) as well as being awarded the Alison Hodge Directing Prize for Excellence in Theatre Making.
Albrecht Dürer’s, Adam and Eve circa 1504 projected onto"Girl" holding an apple
