‘Scones With Nanna’ is a site-specific immersive play. It is performed in old buildings, sometimes with a garden attached, helping add another layer of cultural significance.

It invites audiences into a space rich with history and nostalgia, allowing them to immerse themselves in the narrative on a more intimate level.

The story travels through 100 years in time while Nanna descends into the shrinking world of dementia. It maps an important time in Western Australia’s history and explores themes of cultural identity, truth telling, and wicked humour in the face of adversity.

Please note: The audience will be invited to eat scones, jam and cream (not suitable for celiac or gluten intolerant people).

The play starts when two sisters arrive at the front of Nana’s house. Well, no, the story starts nearly 200 years before hand. The sisters believe that they have brought disgrace upon the family, that is until they hear Nanna’s story. 

It is designed to be a site-specific work for 3 to five actors for an audience of 20 about people maximum, to be performed in a workers cottage, set in Fremantle WA over nearly 200 years. It will be a combination of multi-media, live performance, scone making and scone eating. It is an honest and humorous look at a family’s secrets. Secrets of prostitution, venereal disease, poverty, domestic violence, stolen generation, and hidden Aboriginal heritage. While it is set mostly in the 70’s when people were still getting their head around effective birth control and women’s growing independence, it refers back to the time when the swan River Colony was a few years old.