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Campaign image for the 2023 Season of 'Who's Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maurial Spearim, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Tiffanie Garvie

Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM

By Kamarra Bell-Wykes

22 November 2023 – 03 December 2023 Tower Theatre

Malthouse Theatre,

New Writing Theatre Poetry

Written and directed by Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is a post-traumatic performance thesis, winning the 2021 Patrick White Playwriting Award.

Starring Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, and Maurial Spearim, accompanied by a live improvisational score by smallsound, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is an absurd group therapy session held somewhere in the deepest cells of the collective mind and the colonised heart.

"Poetic, psychic journey: conceptually innovative, flawlessly executed and some of the most exciting new theatre I’ve seen."
— ArtsHub

ABOUT A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION

Based in Naarm (Melbourne) A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION is a motley crew of innovative and visionary theatre-makers, reimagining what First Nations theatre can be.

Formed in 2022, we are an explosive union of equally weird and talented artists, dedicated to making kick-arse art rigorously and safely, hell-bent on taking our unique brand of post-traumatic adventure theatre to Australia and the world.

Our collective encompasses almost all creative and design roles from including, dramaturgy, devising, directing, choreography, performance, set and sound design, making for a dynamic, holistic and self-sustaining team.

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maurial Spearim, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maurial Spearim, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of ' 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim,. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maurial Spearim, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maurial Spearim, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maggie Church-Kopp. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Production still for the 2023 Season of 'Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM' In Photo: Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Maurial Spearim. Photographer: Jacinta Keefe

Creatives

Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Writer & Director

smallsound

Sound & Production Design

Maggie Church-Kopp

Cast

Corey Saylor-Brunskill

Cast

Maurial Spearim

Cast

Gina Gascoigne

Lighting Designer

Jacinta Anderson

Stage Manager

Acknowledgements

Whose Gonna Love Em? I am that i AM is supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation COVID-19 artist support funding, Playking Foundation, City of Melbourne, and Moreland City Council. Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM was commissioned by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and premiered in partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre in November 2022. A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.