Aug 16, 2024
Limerick's Georgina Miller Georgina is an actress, writer and
voice-over artist. She's also a graduate of the full-time actor
training course at the Gaiety School of Acting. Georgina won the
award for Best Actress from the Guinness ISDA Festival for
her performance in "At the Black Pig’s Dyke" (MIDAS).
In this month's episode she talks to us about her debut play, a
hybrid aerial show called "Freefalling". Freefalling is an
autobiographic play about a backpacking trip in her 30s during
which she developed the incredibly rare Guillain-Barre syndrome
which left her paralysed, alone and fearing for her life on a
hospital bed in Samoa. Spoiler: she lives to tell the tale. Hear
and see it for yourself at the Limetree Theatre in Limerick City in
September and at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival in Draíocht in
Dublin in October.
Freefalling is a co-production between Rough Magic Theatre Company and Limetree Theatre in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company.
In this episode we discuss the absolute dud that was the Grey's Anatomy musical episode; the creative process of turning your trauma into art and learning to distance yourself from the story; finding a team of collaborators you can trust to guide your work; the divide between the self as writer and the self as performer; and quieting the voice inside that says you can't do something.
https://x.com/RoughMagicIRL
https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/freefalling/
https://limetreebelltable.ie/events/freefalling-2/
https://www.instagram.com/rough.magic
The Limerick Lady is a grassroots movement based in Limerick, Ireland, with a focus on promoting conversation around gender, visibility, gender balance and the arts. It was founded in 2016 by award-winning (and losing) singer-songwriter Emma Langford, who hosts the podcast alongside fellow award-winning (and losing) Limerick woman, theatre-maker and musician Ann Blake.
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