When the words wouldn’t come, author Ellen van Neerven changed her daily regime and came out of it with a play.
Actor Dani Sibosado, who will be performing in the upcoming Griffin Theatre production of Swim.“I find swimming is a really good way to put your mind into a completely different zone and just flow,” says van Neerven, whose debut work of fictionBest Young Australian Novelist award and was a 2016 co-winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards’ Indigenous Writer’s Prize.
“I wanted to amp up the metaphor of fluidity, how the lead character accesses both their masculine and feminine parts just like water, which is fluid and has no boundaries,” says van Neerven, who identifies as non-binary.The story revolves around gender-fluid protagonist E, negotiating the space between the men’s and women’s changing rooms. The lead is played by non-binary Baad and Yawuru performer Danielle Sibosado.
“The thing I really missed was the beach, part of the play’s message is about the healing nature of water.
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