Backstitch

Show Pack

Equal parts funny and moving, Backstitch is a story about memory, care, and the threads that hold us together. Whether your hands have held a needle or never touched one, there's something here that will feel familiar — a chance to reminisce, remember, and be reminded of what we hold onto and why.

In a world drowning in fast fashion and textile waste, Polly and Esther are on a mission to slow us down, reconnect us to what we already have, and get us to look again before we throw it out.

This work is transportable to aged care facilities, halls, festivals, and outdoor sites.

Alongside the performance, Backstitch can bring a hands-on making and story-sharing workshop that then adds to an interactive textile installation, where audiences are invited to remember through their own textiles and stories.

  • Older adults to reminisce

  • Intergenerational audiences

  • Festivals

  • Libraries and community centres

  • Retirement villages

  • Aged care facilities and school partnership audiences

Plays to groups of up to 50 at a time, indoors or 30 outdoors, seated.

  • Halls, libraries, marquees

  • Parkland with shade or sheltered area

  • Foyers

  • 30-40mins minutes, no interval

  • Repeatable the same day

  • Cast of 2

  • Touring Party of 2

  • Self-contained sound; battery-powered

  • Bump-in and out: 60 mins

  • Playing space: Flat and Level

  • Access: relaxed-performance friendly

  • Chairs required for audience members

  • 1 staff member or volunteer as FOH

  • Workshop is for up to 20 people

  • Exhibition ( of recorded stories and handmade pockets)

Production photos and a press-ready image gallery available on request.

"Polly and Esther forage through discarded textiles for the memories stitched inside them. A funny, tender 30-minute show about what we keep, and why."

Longer copy, high-res photos, and a short trailer will be available — see contact below.

FOR ALL ENQUIRIES CONTACT:

Emma Che Raethke- hello@emmache.com, 0405 162 960.

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