Performances

Love You, Stranger [2019]

A dramatic dance choreographed by Shona Erskine and presented at The Blue Room Theatre, 26 November – 14 December 2019, Love You, Stranger tells three true crime stories of Australian women. Vahri McKenzie researched the cases of Audrey Jacob, Ellen Thomson and Martha Rendell to …

Bakkhai [2017 – 2019]

Euripides’ 2500-year-old tragedy tells the legend of the Bakkhai, a group of wild and strange women accompanying Dionysos, the god of wine, as he returns to his birthplace, bearing a grudge and heralding change. Pentheos, ruler of Thebes, is determined to resist Dionysos, but isn’t …

Lysistrata [2015-2016]

Lysistrata is a contemporary adaptation of Aristophanes’ Old Comedy presented at Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre’s Cube Theatre (July 2015). I directed and choreographed the live performance and worked closely with emerging artists and community to develop an original script, stage design and music. Lysistrata, The …

Sleep Disorders [2010-2012]

Sleep Disorders is a body of work that investigates the pathologisation of sleep through performance research. Image credit: Vahri McKenzie and Hellen Russo, Fool Asleep, in Fringe World Festival 2012. Perth, Australia: The Treasury, 2012. Photograph by Lisa Carrie Goldberg. Fool Asleep is a one-act …

Only the Envelope [2016-2017]

Only the Envelope is a live art installation shown in Bunbury Regional Art Galleries’ Archive Room that investigates the ways we share personal information in the public sphere. In this work a ‘scientist’ offered visitors the opportunity to be involved in an ‘experiment’ by viewing …