Miss W Treads

Written and directed by Jane Woollard.

Miss W Treads investigated Australian early nineteenth-century performance methodology and practice through the career and performances of leading actress Eliza Winstanley. How did female performers physically transform between the diverse roles they were required to play? How would a nineteenth-century performer contribute to a collaborative playwrighting process? 

Miss W Treads was a post-dramatic work that shifted between 1842 Sydney and 2017 Melbourne.

Dramaturgy: Melanie Beddie

Cast: Fanny Hanusin, Ruby Johnson, Nicholas Kato

Design: Amanda Johnson and Jane Woollard

Lighting: Bronwyn Pringle

Music/Sound: Peter Farnan

Fencing master: Gabriel Fitzgerald

Photography: Sarah Walker