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The Cat gets performative in a barnstorming episode from the town of Beechworth, with a sensational special guest: actor, freeformer, poet and Bram Stoker Award nominated author, the preternatural Kyla Lee Ward. While Kaaron paces the women’s ward of the asylum and Aaron loses his voice to Bon Jovi, Joseph mansplains a cat into a pigeon. Kyla immerses herself in phantasmal spaces. Voices are discussed, and accents, intonation and word choice. Feeling a character in the throat. The slippery strangeness of the voice. Also working your way into a character from the outside versus working your way out from within. Rebecca is revisited, as is Kaaron’s ‘hambone effect.’ Mimicry as a stepping stone, the formation, fluidity or calcification of the self. The masks we all wear, and other matters of a deep and divers nature.
Pretexts and semblances spoken of in this episode include:
- AsylumFest 2023
- Bloodsongs magazine
- Richard Adams’ Watership Down
- Robyn Cadwallader’s The Anchoress
- Stanislavski’s ‘Method’
- Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca
- Kyla’s novella The Final Masque
Photos courtesy of the incontestable Cat Sparks. See more of her AsylumFest 2023 snaps here.