FOUND; MISSING ARCHIVES

This work engages with memory, labour, and intergenerational histories.

String of Pearls & Red Zebra Productions acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the land we work and create on. We pay respects to elders past and present, and extend our respect to First Nations artists and patrons joining us this weekend on Wangal Land.

We wish to uphold an ongoing commitment to listening, learning, and accountability, and feel privileged to share space with artists whose knowledge and culture continue to shape the ground on which this work was made.

Access/Wayfinding

Click this link to access audio description of the work, wayfinding and costumes

If you require a tactile, low-sensory, audible or visual interaction with this performance, please see an an Inner West Council Accessibility Officer / Found; Missing Archives Floor Manager

About the Performance

Three puppets move through White Bay as living archives of labour, carrying histories of work, industry, and people. Their movement and interactions explore cycles of capitalism: extraction, erasure, and renewal. The work considers gentrification and its impact on community, culture, and environment.

What is lost, displaced, and what remains?

The work also finds moments of resistance, connection and collective joy when people come together. The performance moves in a loop. The performers converge, then return to repetition. This reflects ongoing systems of oppression. The ending, however is not the same, it feels heavier. What they’ve experienced stays in the walls of White Bay.

The system continues. So does their resilience.

Performers

Adeeb Razzouk

@adeeb.razzouk

About my puppet: Sheerko Mustafa, is a hard working family guy who is living with his wife, 3 children and with his old mother. He is the sole provider to his family, work makes him happy because it means he is getting paid and that means a quality life for his family. He doesn’t like the statement “diamonds created under pressure”, because he is not rock.

Learn about Adeeb

Adeeb Razzouk (he/him) is a Syrian actor, director and intimacy coordinator based in Sydney, NSW. He studied a Bachelor of Theatrical Acting at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus during the civil war. After graduating, he relocated to Lebanon, where he became deeply engaged with Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed through his work with the Syrian Citizenship League. Leading workshops for displaced Syrians, he explored the power of theatre to heal, build community, and inspire social change.

In March 2025, Adeeb premiered his first full-length theatre work, Papers from the Citadel, commissioned by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and supported by Creative Australia. The production received a 5-star review from Sydney Art Guide and is currently being developed for national and international touring.

In addition to his artistic practice, Adeeb has worked as an Art and Youth Engagement Worker at the Community Migrant Resource Centre (CMRC), where he established programs and pathways for migrants and refugees to access and participate in the arts in Sydney.

Now embarking on a new chapter of his career abroad, Adeeb is committed to creating work that bridges cultures and communities, and to collaborating with artists and organisations dedicated to using theatre as a catalyst for dialogue and positive change.

Cynthia Florek

@crespalita

About my puppet: Consuelo Molina Galdos is a disabled worker and a single mother to 4yo twin girls. Born and raised in the mountain regions of Peru but lives and works in Lima. She has fond memories of harvesting corn.

Learn about Cynthia

Cynthia Florek (she/they) is an artist with Afro-Peruvian and Polish heritage. Her practice involves dance, movement, image making and holding space for community. Being nurtured by spaces that encourage collective healing and collective joy, Cynthia gravitates towards softness and care, but also resilience and urgency as themes in her practice.

She has previously worked with and learnt from Leizel Igadna, Rajni Shah (Feminist Killjoys Reading Group) and Agatha Gothe-Snape (Lion’s Honey, Kaldor Public Art Projects), Kate Sherman, Kate Goodwin, and Riana Head-Toussaint (Animate Loading). Other collaborators/learning; Nadia Odlum, Imogen Yang, Ira Ferris, Charmaine Seet. Cynthia has participated in the 2020 Biennale, Feminist Killjoys Reading Group at Pari Rooftop.

She has also participated in UTP Rising and We Are Here (Emma Saunders, Form Dance Projects). 2 choreographic residencies at Critical Path (2021 and 2023) Training: Duti Studios (3 month program 2021)

Development Performer

Angelica “Lady Chika” Osuji

@lady__chika

Donate to Our ACF

We are committed to creating meaningful opportunities to pay our artists and creative team more for their time, labour, and creative contributions to Found; Missing Archives. Across the arts sector, work is so often created out of passion, care, and belief in an idea. Presenting this performance for free, and being platformed as part of the Biennale, is a genuine privilege.

We were fortunate to receive a small commission to present this work at White Bay Power Station, although, it does not reflect the full scope of the work undertaken by the team over the past several months. We feel strongly about ensuring we compensate our team more, for their time and belief in the project. We are asking for support to raise our artist fees. Every contribution, no matter the size, goes towards paying our artists for their time, energy, and artistry!

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Creative Team

Lulu Barkell

String of Pearls Productions

Executive Producer/Co-Director

@lulu.barkell / @string_of_pearls_productions

Theodore Carroll

Red Zebra Productions

Co-Director/Producer

@theo__carroll / @red_zebra_productions / @theo_lx.design

Learn About Lulu

Lulu Barkell (she/they) is a disabled, Greek-Australian multidisciplinary artist, based in Bulanaming/Midjuburi. Lulu is the Executive Producer of String of Pearls Productions, which aims to elevate alternative, disabled, queer, and culturally diverse artists. Their practice explores themes of identity, embodiment, in a cathartic story-telling, rooted in lived experience. Lulu's creative experience spans acting, writing, directing, producing, and set/props design for both stage and screen.

Their proudest collaborations include; NIDAs ‘Great Expectations’ (Theatre; Actor, 2016), Belvoir Street Theatre (Work Experience; assisting in 'The Drover's Wife, and Ruby's Wish, 2016), AFTRS ‘Cranes’ & 'Seagulls', (Short Films; Actor, 2021), ‘Concrete’ (Short Film; Cultural Advisor and Talent Manager, with Mimi Casting, 2022), Mindzi Media, (Youtube Media Channel; Casting Director & Crew, 2023), PACT, ‘Bacchants’ (Theatre; Actor & Costume & Set Designer, 2024), KXT ‘In the Vault Residency Program’ (Theatre; Associate Producer with Red Zebra Productions, 2024),‘Overdone’ (Short Film; Writer/Director/Producer, 2025), ‘Keeping Rave Culture Alive in Eora’ (Documentary; Director & Producer).

In 2026, Lulu aims to further develop their individual practice, with a focus on performance art and prose poetry, They are particularly interested in creating multisensory, immersive, and accessible performance work that integrates tactile art, sound, scent, and intentionally unpalatable design elements. Lulu is excited to see the arts scene, exiting from traditional art practices and restrictions, into a new renaissance of experimentation in unconventional spaces.

Learn About theo

Theo Carroll (he/him) is a Greek-Australian multidisciplinary artist based and practicing on Gadigal Land. He is also a lighting designer and producer with a practice that spans across theatre, live performance and film. His approach is always collaboration first and devised with a particular interest in site-specific works. As a trans man he is passionate about trans-led storytelling and process, whether that be artistically or by simple practice on how we collaborate on work. He recently produced 'MONSTROUS' at KXT on Broadway, a trans-led work centering trans storytelling.

As a lighting designer and dramaturg, his practice centres on atmosphere, spatial tension, and the relationship between light, bodies, and audience. How we feel connected to our performance and how that connects us to eachother and audiences - particulary in interactive contexts. Theo is the co-founder of Red Zebra Productions, an independent production company creating immersive and multidisciplinary performance. Theo was the Designer in Residence at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists (2024) and was a an 'In the Vault' Resident Artist at KXT (2024). He will be premerieing his first written stage work later this year at Sydney Fringe (2026).

Oliver Durbidge

Highly Strung Puppets

Puppet Designer-Maker/Puppetry Director

@oliver_durbidge / @highlystrungpuppets

Paris Jade Burrows

Costume Designer/Maker

@parisjadeburrows

Learn About Ollie

Oliver Durbidge (he/him) is a theatre maker and puppeteer working on Gadigal Land. As the co-founder and co-creative director of Highly Strung, an Inner West—based puppetry performance group, Oliver creates dynamic, immersive works that blend puppetry, movement, and ensemble storytelling.

Highly Strung’s past productions include Art For The End Times (Shopfront ArtsLab 2024), A Dance (Edge Festival Sydenham 2023), and the original musical Everynight (Seymour Centre 2022).

Beyond Highly Strung, Oliver has worked as a puppet designer and puppeteer across short films - Buttercream (2025), Wednesday Night (2025) - and other various creative projects in Sydney, such as Ultrareality (Shopfront Artslab 2025) and What We See In The Water (KXT Step Up Program, 2025). He is also a workshop facilitator, teaching puppetry and stagecraft at Shopfront Arts Co-Op, and is directing Shopfront’s upcoming Junior Ensemble production.

Learn About Paris

Paris Burrows is a multidisciplinary designer working across fashion, screen and live performance. Her fearless attitude and belief in making purposeful work drives her to challenge the traditions of art making in time based mediums and the conventions of dress and tailoring in fashion. Paris’s work stands out as experimental, futuristic and dramatic, with avant-gard tastes and refined gothic sensibility.

After graduation from NIDA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design for Performance in 2023, Paris has worked as a costume and Production Designer, dabbling in Theatre, fashion, events and screen and received great acclaim for her work as well and being nominated for the Sydney Fringe award for “Best in Theatre” 2023.

She is currently working as the Head Designer of her self named brand Paris Jade Burrows and debut her first collection IT'S REAL IF IT BLEEDS as an off schedule show of Australian Fashion Week. Paris's future projects include incoming theatre work and starting on her next collection to release at the end of 2025.

Special Thanks

Found; Missing Archives has been shaped by the generosity, care, and labour of many people who offered guidance, conversation, and support - often without obligation. We give deep thanks to everyone who contributed to the development, communication, and care of this work.

This work is dedicated to George and Evangelia Papaioannou and Evangelos Selas, grandparents who have dedicated their entire being to the care of their family. Working in factories, electricity, cleaning, and construction, keeping the lights on in our home and our stomach’s consistently full.

Special Thanks: Georgina Papaioannou & Viktoria Carroll, Aaron Hamilton-Gold, Reverse Garbage - Kirsten Junor & Haidee Gallagher, Mike Kennedy, Inner West Council - Amylia Harris, Dana Santos, , PACT Centre for Emerging Artists - Justine Shih Pearson and Rica Canillas , Casey Van Elk - Costume Assistant and Intern with Paris Jade Burrows

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