THEATRE
Work In Development
Love Speaks;
the Story of Hildegard of Bingen
An interactive, site responsive and portable outdoor work of story and song, ritual and community engagement. Using Hildegard of Bingen as a mouthpiece, stories and songs are shared in response to audience prompts or offerings. Including Ritual and a central design element that transforms from a fire to a dress.
‘people singing freely in the open air . . created for and by the people’ offering ‘a vision of the world in transformation’
— from Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
Hildegard of Bingen was a nun of the 12 century who was incarcerated as an anchorite in two rooms adjacent to a monastery when she was 8 years old. But later found her way to establish her own convent and produce an enormous body of work as a philosopher, composer, herbalist, artist and more. She toured the German Empire preaching aged 60 and lived until she was 81.
Using St Hildegard and her story as a vehicle, I am creating an ongoing and evolving event of deep connection, including songs, stories and community singing.
This project is a portable, interactive, outdoor experience that evolves in collaboration with the audience, as well as with pre rehearsed community groups. There will be multiple stories and songs from traditional and contemporary sources.
'Art is and always will be a way for spirit to be seen’
— Olivia Fern, Remember Why You Came
Rebecca Morton
ACTOR
Rebecca trained in Music Theatre at the WA Academy of Performing Arts. She believes in the power of all kinds of stories to enlighten, uplift and transform the world, and she’d like to teach the world to sing. She has worked nationally and internationally in opera and theatre, musical theatre, circus, Shakespeare, Theatre in Education and 60’s rock and roll.
Rebecca toured several of her own shows, including The Sparrow and the Showgirl (a story of Edith Piaf and Marilyn Monroe), Both Sides Now, a concert of songs by Joni Mitchell and C’est Si Bon, a love story. Over the last few years she has played a great variety of characters of different nationalities with companies including StageArt, Melbourne Shakespeare Company, Melb Writers’ Theatre and the VCA, the Bloomsday group, and has been working in the development of new plays and musicals, including Paper Stars (Miranda Middleton) and Threadbare (Thomas Parrish) among others.
Therapeutic Dramaturg
'taking care of the feeling in the room'
Rebecca has worked with many new plays in development . . Birthing a play is not dissimilar to birthing a new life . . It can be hard, messy, intensely personal, and deeply rewarding. As a dramaturg, Rebecca can be a play’s midwife, in the writing and/or in the production. ‘We, the storytellers, are the alchemists, the magic makers, the weavers and creators of life. Words are spells; they are creative: I can bring a new level of consciousness to what is being created and sent out into the world.’
Current Work
UNWOMAN (the protest)
Presented by THE RABBLE & Melbourne Fringe Festival
The Edge Theatre, Fed Square.
THE RABBLE are seeking people who would like to be part of our new durational event UNWOMAN (the protest) as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival at Fed Square.
We invite you to be one of hundreds of participants who come and share a short testimony about your experiences of birth, pregnancy, fertility, miscarriage, abortion and parenting.
We are looking for people with all kinds of experiences. Those with children and without. Those who wanted them and couldn’t. Those who didn’t want them. Those who forgot. Those with difficult stories, joyful stories, funny stories and those with stories of grief.
We would love you to come and be a part of this unique and empowering experience.
To find out more, register your interest and we will be in touch with more information.
Sunday 5th October 2025
The Edge Theatre, Fed Square.
Co-creators / Kate Davis and Emma Valente
Community Engagement Liaisons / Cassandra Fumi, Dana Miltins & Mary Helen Sassman
Production Manager / Harry Dowling
Stage Manager / Jo Leishman
Recent Work
UNWOMAN (the protest)
Presented by THE RABBLE & Melbourne Fringe Festival
The Edge Theatre, Fed Square.
THE RABBLE are seeking people who would like to be part of our new durational event UNWOMAN (the protest) as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival at Fed Square.
We invite you to be one of hundreds of participants who come and share a short testimony about your experiences of birth, pregnancy, fertility, miscarriage, abortion and parenting.
We are looking for people with all kinds of experiences. Those with children and without. Those who wanted them and couldn’t. Those who didn’t want them. Those who forgot. Those with difficult stories, joyful stories, funny stories and those with stories of grief.
We would love you to come and be a part of this unique and empowering experience.
To find out more, register your interest and we will be in touch with more information.
Sunday 5th October 2025
The Edge Theatre, Fed Square.
Co-creators / Kate Davis and Emma Valente
Community Engagement Liaisons / Cassandra Fumi, Dana Miltins & Mary Helen Sassman
Production Manager / Harry Dowling
Stage Manager / Jo Leishman
Threadbare
A new queer Australian play
Australian Premiere season 15 – 19 July 2025 in Naarm, Melbourne.
The birthday candles are lit. A caterpillar cake; the music of laughter, the warmth of their touch. Memories flicker like worn-out home videos: a child pretending to be the perfect grandchild.
Sasha is only just beginning to understand who they are, carrying a quiet hope that one day they might tell their grandmother, Elaine. But dementia has begun to blur Elaine’s memories – fracturing the past and clouding her sense of the present. What follows is a delicate and powerful portrait of two souls reaching for each other through the fog of memory—where identity, timing, and love don’t always align.
Written by multidisciplinary artist Tomas Parrish-Chynoweth (MTC’s What If Only, When the Light Leaves), threadbare is a moving exploration of dementia and the complexities of family. At its heart lies the story of a fractured relationship between grandparent and grandchild—one shaped by memory, identity, and the struggle to hold onto love when everything else is slipping away.
“Simply divine to watch”… and the script is “nothing short of brilliant”.
PAST PROJECTS
Rise Again
2020 – 2021 at Gasworks. A Dirty Pennies Theatre Project.
A roaming theatrical journey, set in a future where humans have fled to another planet and in their absence, nature has reclaimed the Earth.
Weaving a tapestry of installation, song, original fables and poetry for a new world, Rise Again is a magical celebration of resilience, growth, and belonging through a feminist.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
2019 Melbourne Shakespeare Company
https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/loves-labours-lost-melb-shak
Nine
2018 Stage Art
‘In a dynamic, commanding performance, Rebecca Morton seizes audience attention whenever demonstrative diva Liliane La Fleur has the spotlight’.
Godot the Wait is over
Tales of a City by the Sea
The Sparrow and The Showgirl
– Joel Crotty for The Age.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
