Siren Theatre Co’s EDEN – A lyrical coming-of-age story about identity, desire, and the cost of becoming.
World Premiere – Adelaide Fringe 2026
A new work by Kate Gaul
Siren Theatre Co presents the world premiere of EDEN, a new play by Kate Gaul, at Adelaide Fringe
Set over one charged summer, the play explores identity, transformation, and the quiet violence of becoming.
ABOUT THE WORK
EDEN follows Kit and Dan as their lives hover between past and possibility. Desire, guilt, and the ache for belonging entwine as the pair navigate a landscape where myth blurs the present, and where every step toward self-knowledge carries a cost.
Infused with a distinctive theatrical language, EDEN unfolds as part confession, part elegy, part mystery. As the story deepens, beauty and danger become inseparable, revealing the fragile moment when identity takes shape — and something precious is lost forever.
Siren Theatre Co is an independent Sydney-based theatre company commissioning and producing new Australian plays, re-invented classics, and work for young people and families. Siren’s practice is guided by a commitment to strong storytelling, theatricality that could exist in no other medium, and work that is beautiful, rigorous, imaginative, and timely. Telling female-centred stories — and interpreting work through a female-centred lens — is central to Siren’s artistic ethos, alongside supporting adventurous and distinctive artists.
Praise for Siren Theatre Co
“Gaul and her team have created one of the best independent shows of the year thus far and have set a new benchmark for what can be achieved.” – Jason Blake
“Every element in this production is in step and working together to create this fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking piece of theatre.” – Ben Neutze
Kate Gaul is a Sydney-based theatre and opera director, creative producer, writer, and Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Co. A graduate of NIDA (Directing), and undertook a residency with SITI Company (NYC). Her directing work spans new Australian writing, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and reimagined classics.
Recent credits include directing The Magic Flute for Opera Australia (2024), premiering Noëlle Janaczewska’s The Past is a Wild Party, commissioning and directing CAMP for a sell-out Sydney WorldPride season, and The End of Winter, which premiered at Adelaide Fringe, toured nationally, and appeared at Singapore Fringe in 2025. Her productions are recognised for their imaginative form and actor-centred practice.
Eden – 2026 Adelaide Fringe
Venue: The Gallery, Courtyard of Curiosities
Dates: 17–22 March 2026
Time: 7.40pm
Duration: 50 minutes
Suitability: 14+
Tickets
Written and Directed by: Kate Gaul
Performed by: Karrine Kanaan, Lara Lightfoot
