An exploration of death, memory, family, effects of the Holocaust and the power of objects through storytelling and photography.

Director: Catherine Fitzgerald

Writer: Margie Fischer

Designer: Kathryn Sproul

Cast: Margie Fischer

The Dead Ones explores death, memory, family, effects of the Holocaust and the power of objects through storytelling and photography.

Fischer's parents were Austrian Jews who fled from Vienna to China to escape the Holocaust. After 10 years in Shanghai they came to Australia as refugees.

Margie lived with her extended family in the house her father built in Sydney. Her grandparents died there, so did her brother. When both her parents also died Margie was left to clear out the house.

While doing this she became fascinated with what is left when loved ones die. Throughout this time she documented her feelings and the processes involved. The Dead Ones explores her family through the objects left behind.

This solo performance is the first created by Margie Fischer since her critically acclaimed award-winning show The Gay Divorcee.

"Raw and beautiful" Samela Harris, The Advertiser