Theatre

Sheltered

Award-winning solo show about finding adulthood in a youth shelter while navigating cerebral palsy.

Dates 18 - 22 Oct
Time 7:30pm, 6:30pm (50 minutes)
Venue Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square

$25.00

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Performer Kathryn Hall is a white woman in her 30s with long brown hair. She is sitting on the ground in front of a rustic wall covered in blankets. She is holding a cardboard sign saying 'Disabled Beggars Can't Be Choosers'.

Performer Kathryn Hall is a white woman in her 30s with brown hair tied back and wearing a purple T-shirt. She is standing on stage shouting with a projection of a wide open mouth behind her.

Performer Kathryn Hall is a white woman in her 30s with brown hair tied back and wearing a purple T-shirt. She is sitting on stage talking to a puppet who is wearing a stethoscope.

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Image Credit: Lisa Savchuk

Created and Performed by: Kathryn Hall
Directed by: Andi Snelling

WINNER Best Theatre Weekly Award, Adelaide Fringe 2023
WINNER Access Award, Adelaide Fringe 2023

Performer Kathryn Hall has one heck of a story to share with you. And a giant heart to match.

Come bunker down with her in this hilariously honest take on the ups and downs of finding adulthood in a youth shelter while navigating cerebral palsy.

Blending comedy, drama, puppetry and one very special quilt, 'Sheltered' is an autobiographical rollercoaster that playfully challenges perceptions of disability through the themes of homelessness, the medical system and undying resilience.

From learning how to cook from teenagers while studying in an impossibly inaccessible school system, to navigating a merry-go-round of therapists and doctors, Kathryn’s cheekiness and vulnerability will have you cry-laughing!

After taking Adelaide Fringe by storm, Kathryn is pumped for her Melbourne debut in this powerful new South Australian work that smashes theatre conventions with its quirky incorporation of access and envisions an alternative to the old frameworks of isolation and segregation by finding a new home for people with disability in a more inclusive society.

"A smashing little show of the unexpected, overflowing with rich humour and self-effacing pathos" ★★★★★ - The Barefoot Review
"An incredible, important story. A must-see show" ★★★★ - Binge Fringe
"An immediate, witty and personal comedic confessional [that] deviates from traditional, inaccessible theatre norms" ★★★★ - In Daily

This project received Cash for Equity through the Fringe Fund, as part of Radical Access.

About Kathryn Hall

Kathryn Hall is an emerging performer and writer. She makes theatre that explores her lived experiences with a disability in an “infectiously bubbly” way.

Her career highlights include: creating and performing her first solo show “Sheltered” (Adelaide Fringe 2022). Sheltered returned to the Adelaide Fringe 2023 where it won the Best Theatre Award for week one and the Access Award for the overall Fringe.

She has performed professionally with No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability since 2009 working in several major productions: I Forgot To Remember To Forget in Singapore 2018, Adelaide 2019 and South Korea 2019. In 2016 Kathryn, along with fellow No Strings’ actors and director Josephine Were, created and performed Of Two Minds at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Outside of her artistic endeavours, Kathryn is employed at No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability as an Artistic Associate.

Andi Snelling is a multi-award-winning performer, writer, and director. She makes boundary-pushing theatre that explores the human condition through the personal as universal with raw honesty and playful physicality. Andi is an Australia Council for the Arts Future Leader 2022-2023.

Her directing credits include international hybrid live/online theatre work, Same-Same 2.0 (No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Adelaide and Theatre Today, Singapore) - nominated Best Ensemble at NZ Fringe 2022, children’s show with live animals, Bettong and Buddies (Dunnart Productions), and Kathryn Hall’s debut solo show, Sheltered - winner Best Theatre Weekly Award and Access Award at Adelaide Fringe 2023.

After having her world turned upside down by chronic illness, Andi has become a champion of thriving in impossibility. She is passionate about the intersection of art and health and is an ambassador for the Lyme Disease Association of Australia, and runs her own creative mentoring business, Kick Up The Arts.

Duration: 50 minutes
Event Accessibility: Blind or Low Vision Rating: Partially Accessible, Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible
Age suitability: PG

This event's Access Pack is available as a PDF HERE and a Word Doc HERE

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square
Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - The Square is wheelchair accessible.

The entrance to the venue is on Lygon St. You can head up the front stairs and through the main doors, once you are through the entrance you will be in the courtyard where our Front of House team will meet you.

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Full: $25.00
Hump Day Discount: $18.75
Extra Applause: $29.50
Concession: $20.00
Group 6+: $19.50
Blak Tix: $20.00

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