WHITESNAKE3000

wld U still <3 me if i was a snek

In January 2023, Zendra Giraudo, a freshly graduated dancer, steps onto a stage. They are Chinese-Malaysian-Australian, Queer, grew up Buddhist, Capricorn, a theatre artist, and a vaper.

Armed with their body, their mind, and their mic, they proceed to perform a 3-minute rendition of the Myth of Madam White Snake, one of the legendary folktales of China.

Exploding out from this single tale they’ll attempt to capture the vastness of human creativity, accounting for all the historically epic and personally intimate memories that lead to this night, this moment.

And in these half researched histories, half remembered mantras, and tiny facts in time and place, they form intricate connections. These half-prayers, these half-rituals, are stitched together in worship to the White Snake, and in her we find the community we willfully turned away from and could never find again.

Made in collaboration with theatremaker Joe Paradise Lui, poet Andrew Sutherland, and dancer Emma Fishwick.

Image by Hannah Bethany Laurent

• Director/Devisor

  Joe Paradise Lui (he/him/y'all)

• Performer/Devisor

  Zendra Giraudo (she/they)

• Dramaturgs

  Andrew Sutherland (he/they)
  Emma Fishwick (she/her)

• Stage Manager/Devisor

  Eliza Smith (she/her)

• Producer/Publicist

  Amy Howell (she/her)