KEEP YOUR HEAD UP Documentation

KEEP YOUR HEAD UP Documentation

A deep dive into the care industry, the politics of incarceration, and art-making as escape. Working via video calls with our friend Mirielle Gabriel, who is homebound with cerebral palsy in Western Sydney, the KEEP YOUR HEAD UP entails staging a jailbreak movie to free Mirielle from the role to which society has confined her.

Creative team and development history

Video documentation: 2025 Development Showing at Sydney Theatre Company, 5 min Showreel

Video documentation: 2025 Development Showing at Sydney Theatre Company, 40 min Full Showing

Sydney Theatre Company 2025 development images (c) Lucy Parakhina

Video documentation: 2024 Development Showing from Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Carriageworks, 5 min Showreel

Video documentation: 2024 Development Showing from Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Carriageworks, 40 min Full Showing

Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2024 development images (c) Lucy Parakhina

Rehearsal images (c) Daniel Bailen

Hero Images (c) re:group