SIX WOMEN STANDING IN FRONT OF A WHITE WALL
“Sends dramatic conventions into freefall: not because it invites audience participation but because that participation touches, quite literally, on a need we all have... The effect is startling. Harrowing. Humbling. ”
“A miraculous testament to our capacity for empathy.”
Director: Chenoeh Miller
Photos: Silas Brown
Performers: Noa Rotem, Kat Henry, Helen Smith, Cristina de Mello, Fleur Elise Noble, Erica Field, Amy Stephenson, Emma Schofield, Erin Walton, Cathy Petocz, Peta Ward, Giema Contini, Penny Harpham, Caroline Francis, Aideen McCartney, Bambi Valentine, Alison McGregor, Natsuko Yonezawa, Carly Rees and Miriam Slater.
For Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025: Alison McGregor, Miriam Slater, Ruby Rowat, Natsuko Yonezawa, Leah Maddocks and Monica Engel.
Six Women Standing In Front Of A White Wall is a work about love and touch. We all know, instinctively, the impact and effect that touch has on us. Scientists know it too, and continue to investigate the varying ways touch impacts and shapes our bodies and lives, from its effect on our nervous system and immune response, to it’s importance as a powerful tool of social connection. Babies need touch in order to survive, and if our growing mental health crisis has taught us anything, we know adults do too.
Since its first inception in 2006, the show has been performed more than 80 times across Australia and in the UK. During its season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the work was a sleeper hit, selling out the entire season and garnering several awards, including a Herald Angel Award, Scotland on Sunday best Director Award and a nomination for Total Theatre Award (Experimental Theatre). At the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2009, the work also received the Melbourne Fringe Best Dance Award, as well as the Gasworks Development Award. Since then, the work has been presented at 2High Festival (Brisbane, 2009), Art Not Apart (2014), the APAM Supper Club (2014) and Sydney Fringe Festival (2022) winning Best Interactive Performance.
