The Boards Above Her Face
Fringe Festival Hub: Bridie Noonan
I saw him, every him, overlaid. The boy, the animal, the inbetween.
A new experimental one person play about a young woman who has the power to transform things into other things, a power that causes her physical pain. After she turns her lover into a tiny silver bird, and cannot change him back, she moves to a cabin to isolate and grieve, all the while trying to reverse the change. Here, in her loneliness, she develops a complicated and erotic relationship with a chair.
Dates
29th Sep
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Meat Market Stables, Fringe Festival Hub
36-56 Courtney Street
North Melbourne,
Victoria
3051
Australia
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I saw him, every him, overlaid. The boy, the animal, the inbetween.
A new experimental one person play about a young woman who has the power to transform things into other things, a power that causes her physical pain. After she turns her lover into a tiny silver bird, and cannot change him back, she moves to a cabin to isolate and grieve, all the while trying to reverse the change. Here, in her loneliness, she develops a complicated and erotic relationship with a chair.
Bridie Noonan is an actor, dramaturg, and writer, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri country, whose work spans theatre, film, and print.
Her work largely concerns the eerie and the bodily, exploring themes of desire, illness, and magic. She is interested in using small things to talk about big things. She has collaborated in recent years on many projects presented at Fringe, including Adena Jacobs’ multi-channel video work, Flames Danced in Their Hair But Did Not Burn Them (2024), which won Best in Visual Arts and Film at the Melbourne Fringe Awards, Lucy Eidelson’s Air Hunger (2023) and Requiem (2025).
She has provided dramaturgy across both contemporary dance and theatre productions, and has been published in Voiceworks magazine and The Suburban Review. In 2024 she was awarded University of Melbourne’s Robert McDonald award, which saw her seconded to the MTC production of World Problems, directed by Cassandra Fumi.
Directed and created by Bridie Noonan
Produced by Zarzokimi Moss
Composed by Shayaki Niranjan
Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2026
Event warning
Sudden loud noises, contains strobe lights and sustained bright lights, some nudity, strong coarse language.
Content warning
Alcohol use, animal cruelty, drug references, death, emotional abuse, grief, sexual references, violence.
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