EXAMPLES OF PAST WORKS BY HEATHER FAIRBAIRN + KATE WILD
CONVICTION, by Zoey Dawson, The Hive Collective, Metro Arts, 2021
Directed by Kate Wild
“My new gold standard for a play” - The Courier Mail
★★★★★ “Seamless. Such a delight piecing it all together. And director Wild guides us to do that so beautifully” - Blue Curtains
TWELFTH NIGHT, Bell Shakespeare, Sydney Opera House, 2023
Directed by Heather Fairbairn
“Fairbairn’s production is endlessly vivacious and amusing, marvelously playful and imaginative with its characters and their hijinks.” - Suzy Wrong, Suzy Goes See
★★★★★ “This Twelfth Night achieves greatness, and thrusts it upon an appreciative audience.” - Nanci Nott, ArtsHub
THE SOUND OF A FINISHED KISS, by Kate Wild, Brisbane Powerhouse, 2018
Directed by Kate Wild
Winner of the 2018 Matilda awards for Best Independent Production and Best Musical
“With its backstory of the city and some of its people, it is simply superb.” - Blue Curtains
“There’s a poetry and honesty to this work that leads us gently from four corners of the globe to our own back yard, begging us to recall the details of a decade.” - XS Entertainment
BIOGRAPHICA, by Mary Finsterer and Tom Wright, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Theatre Works, 2023
Directed by Heather Fairbairn
★★★★½ “Director Heather Fairbairn has led the Biographica team to create a magnificent visual diorama” - What Did She Think
★★★★ “The production cleverly uses light, projections and mirrors. […] Biographica is high art that successfully reflects on the past while offering a glimpse of opera’s future.” - Bridget Davies, The Age
“Directed by Heather Fairbairn, with an overlay of ritualistic movement and attention to both the gestural and emotive, Biographica morphs through an 85-minute, 12-part tableaux adding up to a musically intoxicating, visually compelling and powerfully fused performance piece.” - Paul Selar, Australian Arts Review
THE SEAGULL, by Anton Chekhov, Metro Arts, 2015
Directed by Kate Wild
“An almost-perfect work of art.” - Crikey
THE MUTANT MAN, by Christopher Bryant, The Space Arts Centre, London, 2017
Directed by Heather Fairbairn
"Heather Fairbairn’s stylish production incorporates a wealth of well-judged audio-visual effects, which echo the fluidity of the performances" - Paul Vale, The Stage
“The Mutant Man is beautifully performed with glimpses of visual genius in its staging" - Maeve Campbell, The Plays The Thing