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This powerful Sydney theatre production will open on October 15th 2008 for a strictly limited season. |
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This powerful Sydney theatre production will open on October 15th 2008 for a strictly limited season. |
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audience feedback------------------------ "The honesty in this play is beyond anything that I have seen on stage before, and it is this authenticity that gives the work it's power to bring people together; connecting hearts and minds." - Annalise Pippard, Australian Eating Disorders Foundation "Beginner at Life is as brilliant as it is shocking. Alana Ruben Free has created a compelling insight into the heart, mind and body of a woman who has suffered from anorexia, and portrays the tumultuous journey in a riveting yet poignant manner. One cannot help but be drawn into the heartache, anguish and despair of anorexia, only to bask in the exhilaration and ultimate freedom of recovery through finding connection with your heart and true self." - Melinda Hutchings author of Fighting for Life; Anorexia the Road to Recovery and founder of www.bodycage.com "Alana inspires us to move into the dark places inside and come out lighter and more evolved." - Courtney Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters. "A spirited contribution to the transformative dialectic of anorexia. This show offers new insights into the anguish of anorexia. Excellent. It resonated as truth within my body." --Marion Woodman, Ph.D, author of Addiction to Perfection, The Owl was a Baker's Daughter, and many more. ------------------------ "Radical! On the Moon!" --Ross Woodman, Ph. D ., Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism and others. ------------------------ "...a powerful 45 minute show on eating disorders and the politics of food - specifically anorexia in the context of a critique of Jewish and general Western cultural practices of eating, mothering, fasting, feeding. It's a luscious healing and philosophically investigative performance." --May Joseph, Ph.D., Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship ------------------------ "Courageous, revealing, and creative, Alana Free's Beginner at Life is an inspiring journey of recovery from Anorexia. Ms. Free's intimate monologue about sex and appetite, love, birth and the body, is a weaving midrashic tale of internal conflicts and Jewish themes. It is a perfect antidote to female body hatred." --Esther Altmann, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist and Eating Disorders Specialist ------------------------ "The depth of conversation that followed Alana Free's one-woman show, Beginner At Life, said it all for me. People are hungry to talk about the spiritual and psychological complexities of eating disorders and identity formation, not just harp on the fashion industry. Alana's show gives them the way in. With her fearless look at her own psyche, she inspires us all to move into the dark places inside and come out lighter and more evolved." -Courtney E. Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters ------------------------ "...gets to the heart of the struggle between women and their bodies." --Maria Sorbara, MS, R.D., CDN. Body Connection, LLC ------------------------ "Beginner at Life is not only a most poignant play on feminism, patriarchy, religion, spirituality, body image, imagination, elation, sex, non-sex, non-sense, but it is both relevant and revelatory into the female psyche, the Jewish mind and the coming of age in society. In the interest of brevity, much is missing, but it's all in the show. See it. Run, don't walk." -- Allison ------------------------ "I feel, at least temporarily, in touch with humanity, with my humanity, by experiencing the intensity of your experience with your humanity."-Martin, Oct. 2004 ------------------------ "emotionally vibrant, deeply thought provoking and inspirationally brave. Thanks for saying all of it out loud." -- Kate ------------------------ "I loved the portrayal of anorexia as part of a dynamic in life. It has always been presented to me as a "disorder" quite separate from life. I have also had an eating disorder and have struggled with issues of accepting needs from inside my body. For the first time in my life, I am able to stop counting food that I take in, feeling obsessed with whether it was good for me or not." ---anonymous ------------------------ "I loved the vulnerability and humor - it makes me feel more human as a woman and as a professional who works with women with these difficulties." --Ingrid D., York University, January 2007 ------------------------ "That was awesome. Some serious shit. Very powerful and understandable." -- Eugene ------------------------ "...very touching and very inspiring... It brought feelings of empowerment and strength to me as a woman who feels compelled to please everyone but herself . Great performance. P.S. the touch of spirituality made it more soulful and riveting. Good Luck and Thanks." -- anonymous ------------------------ "I like that you were able to bring some humor into the monologue so that it is not too serious. Also it was not solely focused on the eating disorder but on aspects of life." -- anonymous
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