Writer & Director: Jemma McDonnell
Co-Director: Kylie Perry
Assistant Director: Shanice Sewell
Executive Producers: Charlotte Kalantari-Gregory & Charlie Tapp
Producers: Adele Souto & Katie Webster
Lil McGibbon, Daz Scott and Kiren Virdee
Worlds unfold from backpacks, and tents are constructed and dismantled again, each scene and location
temporary, like transient a teenager in search of safety, acceptance and a new place to call home. An
interrogation of empathy, ‘Feel Me’ asks what makes us ‘feel’ for another person, as we journey through
landscapes and across borders, through weather storms and paperwork, changing seasons, endless
queues and interviews.
Through movement, dance, film, video projection
and audience interaction, the issue of forced
displacement is examined, whilst encouraging us
to question where our own empathy lies.
-K speaking in an intense and confident tone downstage left
-L infront of the camera looking intensely down the lens which is projected on the screen
-D is filming L's face, back to the audience
the audience gets the full effect of how the subject of forced displacement is sugar-coated
-L in the audience front row filming people
-K sat in the seat, posture upright looking forward into the audience with a serious and intense tone
-D sat next to K with posture upright doing the same as K
-K and D are sat on chairs stage left watching
-L running, with back to the audience watching the screen
-Kneels facing stage right wrapping hand in bandage
-Pretends to drink water intensely
-Running speeds up to match the music
-encourgaing us to question empathy in our own lives