Program

Friday, November 27

Saturday, November 28

Sunday, November 29

She Rested

19:30 - 20:30

Thursday, November 26th

Q Theatre, The Joan, Penrith

Performance
Aimée Falzon
Eddie Abd
S. Shakthidharan
Jessica Olivieri

Tickets
Full: $35
Concession: $30

A mirror held up to the raw, sacred truth of becoming a mother.

Written and performed by acclaimed artist Aimée Falzon, She Rested is a song cycle, a ritual, and a reckoning.

Driven by Aimée’s soaring live vocals and deep soundscapes, woven with Eddie Abd’s arresting video, She Rested is a performance that illuminates the sacred underworld of contemporary caregiving.

Motherhood transforms and obliterates, yet the raw truths have remained taboo. She Rested offers up a moment of reverence in a world that so rarely pauses to acknowledge the journey.

Creative Team
Lead Artist Aimée Falzon
Video Artist Eddie Abd
Dramaturgs Dr. Jessica Olivieri and S.Shakthidharan
She Rested is developed, produced and presented by Utp and Kurinji

This work discusses postnatal depression and suicidal ideation.

Featuring

Aimée Falzon

Aimée Falzon is an interdisciplinary composer, singer, music producer and performer whose art weaves song, ritual and storytelling. Of Maltese, Scottish, and Libyan heritage, her roots trace from singing to cattle in remote Birpai country as a kid to now creating on Dharug Nation land. She's been praised for her "superb voice" (The Australian) and "impressive one-woman symphony" (Sydney Scoop) that reaches profound emotional depths. Her current projects include her debut album I Am Nature Working With You, alongside extensive composition, sound design, and screen credits across major Australian festivals and institutions.

Eddie Abd

Eddie Abd is an artist and arts worker living and working across Dharug Country. She explores in her works, often containing autobiographical references, notions of performativity and cultural continuity. Her work is framed by historical research and family storytelling, pinpointing links between personal and broader historical and political contexts.

S. Shakthidharan

Shakthi is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. His plays Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea and The Wrong Gods have won critical, commercial and community acclaim and toured internationally. He has a film, plays and multi-disciplinary works in development. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath published by Powerhouse is his debut book. It will be accompanied by a year-long, large-scale artwork at the Museum. In 2026 he won the prestigious, global Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.

Jessica Olivieri

Jessica Olivieri is a BA graduate of the now defunct, always legendary Western Sydney University Art School, undertaking study at the Piet Zwart and receiving a PhD from Sydney University. This PhD focused on the intersections of visual art, performance, dance and theatre within a community setting and how to do it better. Prior to this, Jessica had a practice as an artist and curator showing at major institutions like Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and curating for Performance Space, Sydney and Campbelltown Arts Centre. Jessica’s experience of growing up in an intercultural environment, as well as ten years of house-bound chronic illness and dyslexia, have informed her commitment to intersectional access to the arts. She is currently Co-Artistic Director at Utp.

Penrith

Q Theatre, The Joan

597 High Street, Penrith

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