POW Circus

Performances and Events

Performance History: POW Major Shows

Act Your Age - 8, 9 March 1995
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Jean Taylor

Still Revolting - 29 February and 1, 2, 6, 7 March 1996
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Jean Taylor

Every Witch Way - 28, 30 November 1996
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Jean Taylor

Unstopped Mouths - 30, 31 October and 1 November 1997
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Jean Taylor
Script - Susan Hawthorne

Tarot over the Top - 24, 25, 26 September 1998
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Nancy Amendariz
This show was dedicated to a founding member of POW who died just before the show's season began.

The Art of Falling is Never Landing - between 27 July and 5 August 2000, and rural tour in 2003
Performed at - Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Director - Kim Baston
Script by - Susan Hawthorne and Kim Baston
Additional performances:

• 23 June 2000 - Human Services Conference at Moonee Valley Race Course (work in progress)
• August and September 2000 - tour of community centres in Melbourne's western suburbs
• 3 September 2000 - opened Community Safety Week at Southbank
• 5 September 2000 - follow up performance at the Melbourne Town Hall
• 20-23 March 2003 - rural tour to Beechworth, Rutherglen, Mount Beauty, Tallangatta and Wodonga

This show, developed in conjunction with the City of Casey, aims to raise awareness in relation to falls prevention, particularly for older people.

Power Moves - between 27 September and 7 October 2001
Performed at - Pit Theatre, Footscray Community Arts Centre
Director - Kim Baston
Script - Susan Hawthorne
This show toured to several centres in rural and metropolitan Victorian in April and May 2002.

Power Moves is a show about strength - physical strength and the role it plays in improving women's lives, especially as we age; and also emotional strength - the real strength that is needed to confront change - change in our lives and change in the world in which we live.

The Maiden Aunt's Story - 2002
Director - Kim Baston
Script - Susan Hawthorne based on stories written and researched by members of POW
Three seasons in 2002:

• 26, 27, 28, 31 July and 1, 2, 3, 4 August - North Melbourne Town Hall, Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
• 9, 10, 11, 12 October - The Cromwell Road Theatre,  27a Cromwell Rd, South Yarra
• 6, 7 November - 2002 Sydney Gay Games Cultural Festival, Paddington Town Hall, Oxford Street, Paddington

The Maiden Aunt's Story deals with loss and resilience in humorous and physically daring ways that inspire audiences to reflect on family, companionship and being alone.

Something Old, Something New - between 11 and 20 September 2003
Performed at - North Melbourne Town Hall, Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Director - Kim Baston
Script - written and researched by members of POW

The wedding of the year is in preparation, then the town is set alight ... a virgin birth - but with two mothers ... a story of fire safety, leg waxing, discrimination against lesbians, and rock 'n' roll!

This Skin - April/March 2006
Performed at - North Melbourne Town Hall, Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Script - written and researched by members of POW

Performance History: POW Circus Small Shows

Numerous performances, some drawn from annual shows have been taken to suburban and rural centres, including:

• 1995 and 1996 - performances for Senior Citizens' Week at Caulfield Race Club and Melbourne Town Hall
• 1996 - International Midwives Conference, Hyatt on Collins
• 1996 - Politics of Radical Feminism, Deakin University, Toorak Campus
• 1997 - Castlemaine Festival
• 1998 - Community Week at Moonee Valley Race Course
• 2004 - "Global Garden Party" at the St Kilda Gardens for the City of Port Phillip
• 2004 - "Falls Don't Just Happen" poster launch at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre
• 2004 - "ReActive Ageing Debate" at Parliament House
• 2004 - "Health2004 - World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education" at the Melbourne Convention Centre
• 2004 - National Breast Cancer Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre
• 2005 - Senior Citizens Week in Horsham
• 2005 - Warrnambool
• 2005 - 9 September Alzheimer Australia Forum
• 2005 - 9 September Hume University of Third Age 10th Birthday
• 2005 - November Australian Physiotherapists Conference (Neurology & Gerontology)
• 2006 - This Skin at North Melbourne Town Hall
• 2006 - Scenes from “This Skin” for the Melba Project at Healesville
• 2006 - Scenes from “This Skin” at the Chelsea Heights Community Centre
• 2006 - Scenes from “This Skin” for the Social Work Department of the University of Melbourne
• 2006 - “Consider Rivers” for Farewell to The Pit at Footscray Community Arts Centre
• 2006 - “Fair Play!” for International Women's Day at the Melbourne Town Hall
• 2008 - September “Where Angels Dare” at Ringwood for Dept. Human Service Planned Big Day Out
• 2008 - October “Where Angels Dare” at Strathfield for Bendigo Rural Health Activity Day
• 2008 - October “Where Angels Dare” at Cecil Street Studios

Three small shows written specially for community performance have also been created:

• Carnivale - 1 December 1997
  Performed at Victorian Business Women's Christmas Party, Swinburne University, Lilydale Campus
• Balancing Acts - 8 September and 29 October 1999
  Footscray Community Arts Centre
• The House That POW Built - April 2000
  Braybrook Community Centre