Cat Lady! Dried up spinster! Barren ghost! Frigid witch!
Kerensa Diball has decided she’s not having children.
Poignant and celebratory, The Kick Inside is an attempt to understand why being childfree is fundamentally challenging to us all, Kerensa included.
Kerensa considers her mother’s desire for grandchildren, cracks open the canon of capitalism, mourns her lack of female role models - and embarks on a quest to become a a wild and free childless goddess.
Revel in the messiness of buggering off all that good and bad advice and making your own glorious path. Expect absurd humour, psychedelic trips, a breeding aphid and a bit of bad dancing in an attempt to avoid those quiet moments where fear and loneliness creep in.
Created & Performed by Kerensa Diball
Trailer of WIP @ Vault Festival
Kerensa Diball is a Bristol/London and Melbourne based performance maker and performer. She is inspired by the feminst performance art philosophy, the personal is political.
Each project aims to spotlight a contemporary dilema and through off-beat humour, real-life experience, unflinching honesty and thorough research, incite dynamic and poignant discussion.
She has presented work at Next Wave, Melbourne Fringe, Big West and has been commissioned by Geelong Arts Centre, Darebin Arts, City of Melbourne and Melbourne Fringe
Praise for previous work:
'Engaging, touching and humerous', Australian Stage
'Exceptionally honest and raw… A thought-provoking show that exudes fresh and
natural vibrancy', Stage Whispers
'A fine example of life imitating art imitating life.. expressed with impassioned humerous scenes', My Melbourne Arts