Car Maintenance Explosives & Love

The script for Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love was developed over thirteen years. My intention was to create a work that would theatrically extend me as a writer and performer. Car Maintenance Explosives and Love premiered in Melbourne in 1996 (dramaturged and directed by Andrea Lemon). It then toured between 1996 - 2007, with seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Tasmania, London, the Edinburgh Festival, and a British tour. The show received consistently good reviews, including a major focus from The Guardian, London, which described it as The script of Car Maintenance Explosives and Love (CMXL) was published Spinifex Press in a collection of writing that takes the script as the book's title. The script of CMXL was provocative and challenging and emerged from having space and time after leaving the Women's Circus (of which I was the Artistic Director for seven years,) to craft a piece of theatre that was deeply personal and satisfying as a theatre writer and practitioner.