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chook chook
design role: Set and Costume designer, Scenic Artist. director: Louella Foyle company: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School venue: Bristol Old Vic Theatre Basement Studio date: 2005 Chook Chook, written and first directed in 1994 by Kiwi author Fiona Farrell, is a short, humorous, feminist piece exploring ways of coping with confinement and social constraint. The four characters are chickens living in a battery farm, but Lavery provides a unique insight into female relationships, neuroses and conditions, in her quirky implication of human portraiture. The set was a series of swings structured on A frames, like playground swings, connoting the idea of a playground, while their uniformity suggested the prison of the battery farm. At the play’s climax, the girls swung forward, kicked down the gates of their pens, and stripped off the lab-coats (indicative of their confinement) to reveal bejewelled, newly feathered, bare-breasted cabaret dancers beneath.
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