The Selkie Project is a new Australian work exploring gender roles, displacement and inheritance by re-examining the Celtic myth of the Selkie.

It follows the story of the Selkie, a seal-woman, displaced into an unfamiliar human world. Grotesquely animal, but trapped in the human roles of ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, she is an alien living on land and yearning for the sea. The work also traces the generational fracture created in her daughter, who lives and breathes the aftermath of this displacement, carrying the burden of the past.

A one-woman show, The Selkie Project is a poetic collision of an old myth with contemporary experience, threaded by vast metaphoric imagery by Green Room Award winner Ivanka Sokol, and evocative sound design by Meta Cohen.

DIRECTOR / Robert (Draf) Draffin

WRITER AND PERFORMER / Georgie Durham

SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER / Meta Cohen

VIDEO AND PROJECTION ARTIST / Ivanka Sokol

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Zachary Sheridan

DRAMATURG / Emily Burke