Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that i AM

Recipient of the 2021 Patrick White Playwrights Award, Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that i AM is a post-traumatic masterpiece. An absurd group therapy session held somewhere in the deepest cells of the collective mind creates a hypnotising interrogation of trauma, how to move through it and the difficulty of healing intergenerational wounds on colonised land.

Credits

Writer and Director – Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Sound Designer and Production Designer – small sound 

Lighting Designer – Gina Gascoigne

Text and Movement Dramaturge – Carly Sheppard

Performers – Maggie Church-Kopp, Maurial Spearim and Corey Saylor Brunskill                   

Presentations

2023 Malthouse Theatre – Double-bill with Chase

2022 Neighbourhood Contemporary Arts Festival.

Accolades

2021 Patrick White Playwrights Award (Sydney Theatre Company)

Quotes

Sydney Theatre Company Literary Manager (Polly Rowe) – “Kamarra's voice rings out, powerful and distinct."

Support

Whose Gonna Love ‘Em? I am that i AM was commissioned by Footscray Community Arts and ILBIJERRI for the 2022 Neighbourhood Contemporary Arts Festival.

Whose Gonna Love Em? I am that i AM was supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation COVID-19 artist support funding, Playking Foundation, City of Melbourne and Moreland City Council.