FAWN connects characters from popular culture with everyday people who have the lived experience of losing a parent. Dressed in a kind of orphan drag and performing acts of care on each other, they form temporary bonds and act out unlikely intimacies. FAWN queers the notion of family and acknowledges that loss doesn’t always lead to a heroic coming of age adventure.
This work was commissioned by ACMI as part of a larger project commissioned by RISING.
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