Urza and The Song in the Dark is a brand-new children’s fable set in a subterranean wonderland of complex caves, underground lakes and fantastical creatures. A mysterious song leads a young girl named Urza on an adventure to find her way back to the surface. Along the way she befriends a lost explorer, gets pursued by a mysterious, dark force and finds herself caught up in a primeval story of mythical proportions.

Composers: Kathryn Roberts Parker and Roman Benedict
Creator: Kathryn Roberts Parker
Director: Scott Parker

Photography by Robert Catto

Underground Lake

The Ballad Of Geronimo Trickett (Live)

Walking to Work

Kitchen Dance (performed by Sam Kelly)

Composition in collaboration with Roman Benedict

Photography by Robert Catto

Meditation on a Lonely Coastline

Composed and performed by Kathryn Roberts Parker
Based on an early modern ballad style in the Dorian mode
Photography by Robert Catto

Lyrics:
Geronimo Trickett was a sailor of the sky
His flying machine was a wonder way up high
He built his contraption when he was 25
He named her Aurora after his mother who had died
He went up and away 
In the morning every day!

It was powered by a stone found by his house on the hill
Aurora had no rivals and gave the townsfolk such a thrill
Each sunrise Geronimo would take her higher than yestermorn
Aurora she flew even in the fiercest storm
He went up and away 
In the morning every day!

But one day after flying 20 miles above the town
Aurora lost her stone and her up became her down
Down down she flew over town, hill and dale
The earth she had opened her mouth wide like a whale
He went down into the cave
No more flying any day

The Ballad Of Geronimo Trickett (Demo)

Composed and performed by Kathryn Roberts Parker
Lyrics in Old Saxon

Photography by Robert Catto

Mōdar Erða sostener ūs (Mother Earth sustain us)

Experience masks made by students in the Secret World of Cootamundra

Wolf Man

Seagull

Swan Princess

I compose and perform music in theatre. Co-founder of Matriark Theatre. PhD student specialising in Shakespeare's use of music. Currently working on incorporating celtic/traditional music styles in my own compositions in two new shows, Urza and the Song in the Dark, and The Lighthouse at the End of the World

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