Co-Written and Performed by Sarah Cathcart
Co-written and Directed by Kerreen Ely-Harper

Set and Costume Design Anna Borghesi
Lighting Design Rachel Burke
Composition Elizabeth Drake
Dramaturgy Hannie Rayson

Sarah Cathcart is an unforgettable performer whose award-winning
productions of The Serpent’s Fall, Walking on Sticks and Tiger Country
enjoyed huge success throughout Australia and internationally.

Effortlessly shifting between voices and physicalities, Sarah creates an epic
theatre of astonishing intimacy. In her newest work, Cargo, commissioned by
Malthouse Theatre, Sarah gives voice to Mary Bryant, the First Fleet convict
and unwitting adventurer who became both participant and witness to a
history in the making.

Mary Bryant’s is a story of banishment and first encounter, brutality and
love - and legendary escape from Botany Bay through unchartered waters to
Timor. Cargo is the story of a young woman desperate to survive at all costs
told through a performance which digs deep into the imagination of the settler
colony.