The Angelica Complex

Co-created and Directed by Priscilla Jackman
Co-created & Written by Sunny Grace
Set and Costume Design by Elia Bosshard
Video Projection by Velinda Wardell ACS
Lighting Design by Louise Mason
Sound Design supported by Tegan Nichols
Production Photography by Phil Erbacher
Associate Producer: Lucinda Gleeson
Cast: Kym Vercoe, Naomi Livingston, Lucia May

Invisible Circus at Kings Cross Theatre

Date: November 2016

About the Project

Inspired by Puccini’s little known all female opera, Suor Angelica, The Angelica Complex is a provocation into modern motherhood and the isolation of new mothers.  This courageous work fuses a rich stylistic and linguistic poeticism, with a brutal twenty-first century wit that bites. The result is a transformative, if not unsettling revelation into the challenges and tensions of a woman who struggles to hold the child she loves, while holding onto her sanity.

Invisible Circus is a season of female directors which celebrates new plays, performance and provocation.  Alongside fellow directors Kate Gaul and Cathy Hunt, Priscilla and her all female creative team brings Sydney audiences a new work; created in collaboration with writer Sunny Grace, physical theatre performer Kym Vercoe, with live operatic vocals by Naomi Livingston, and projection design by Velinda Wardell ACS.