‘Falling in Love with Frida’ to tour Australia

Artistic director, choreographer and performer Caroline Bowditch is soon returning to Australia to present her intimate show Falling in Love with Frida, which explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo. Performances will be presented in March in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and Melbourne.

Winner of the 2014 Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and selected for the British Council 2015 Edinburgh Showcase, Falling in Love with Frida celebrates Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) as a disabled artist. Through her love-like obsession with Frida, Bowditch shares affinities and parallels to her own life. This all-woman show also shares many little-known facts about Frida.

“The journey of making this piece, that I am really proud of, has been full of adventure, joy, laughter and tears,” Bowditch stated. “I invite you to join me around the yellow table in celebration of one of the finest women that has ever lived.”

Bowditch was born in Australia but has spent the last 13 years in the U.K. developing her art. She describes herself as a “mosquito buzzing in the ears of the arts industry.”

To see this Aussie—“a woman in charge and an agent for change”—present this thought-provoking work, book tickets at www.outlandisharts.net.au. Performances are set for Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres on March 4-5; Newcastle’s Black Box Theatre on March 11-12; Wollongong’s Workshop Theatre on March 14-15; and Melbourne’s Melba Speigeltent on March 18-19.