Cake is an award winning contemporary performance which premiered at the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Cake is an intimate, funny and engaging work, performed in the round and featuring songs, lots of flour, gentle audience interaction and opportunities to eat cake. It was very warmly received by Adelaide Fringe audiences, who described it as 'beautiful', 'moving' and 'elegant'.

Cake is about losing a baby and filling the gap by consuming. It's about how we often process experiences and let go of the past in unexpected ways. It's about being inside a body that experiences appetite, fullness, pregnancy, desire and emptiness. It's about the absurdity, pain, complexity, mess and escapism of romantic love.

Cake moves backwards, forwards and sideways through memory and fantasy, from the first to the third persona and back again as it traces a woman's experience of loss and distraction. Cake has been developed through a process in which song, movement and design are as important as words. We enjoy working with imagery that allows for multiple interpretations and meanings, a kind of physical poetry. With Cake, Ladykillers have created a world that inspires the imagination and moves along a non-linear pathway, the way our minds do.

Ladykillers
Ladykillers are award winning artists Zoe Barry, Gaelle Mellis, Astrid Pill and Ingrid Voorendt. Zoe performs, composes and plays music, Gaelle designs, Astrid performs and writes, and Ingrid directs. Their imaginative collaboration has resulted in inspired contemporary performance.

Ladykillers was formed after nearly a decade of working together in various combinations on a range of projects, including productions for Restless Dance Company, Vitalstatistix, Patch Theatre Company, the Adelaide Festival Centre and State Theatre Company of South Australia. After presenting Time She Stopped at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2003, Ladykillers began developing Cake, produced by Vitalstatistix for the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival, and The Pyjama Girl, through a residency at Hothouse Theatre. The Pyjama Girl will premiere at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2008. In May 2007 Ladykillers premiered Lullaby, commmissioned by Come Out, the Australian Festival for Young People.

Their Awards include: Innovation and Excellence by a South Australian Theatre Company (2006 Adelaide Fringe Awards), Special Commendation for Design Concept and Execution (2006 Adelaide Fringe Awards) and the 2006 IAF Innovation Award (Adelaide Critics' Circle).

Ladykillers are funded by Arts South Australia's recent Theatre Development Strategy fund, and their work has been supported by the Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Contact:

Morag Skinner
Ladykillers
1/572 Portrush Road
Glenunga SA 5064
Mob 0412 944 668
lady@ladykillers.org.au