DIRECTING
Maeve’s directing work has been seen nationally and internationally with new work POLES: The Science of Magnetic Attraction. Maeve directed and dramaturgically supported POLES in a development season at The Butterfly Club Melbourne (2021), followed by a critically acclaimed season at Adelaide Fringe, a sold out and award nominated Edinburgh Fringe season, and subsequent tour of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Fringe Festivals (2022). Other credits include The Maltese Walter (Short & Sweet, Brisbane), her original play Ladies Write Letters of Lemony Love (Digital Melbourne Fringe) and most recently - devised physical theatre work Back Pocket (TART).
She was Assistant Director for Cygnets (The Liminal Space, Dir. Harry Haynes) and provided Movement Direction for experiemental poetry work Body Uncertain (Dir. Kate Cameron).
BACK POCKET
TART Theatre Collective, The Motley Bauhaus, Melbourne Fringe 2023
A Queer dived in to Time’s back pocket… and Time strolled on… and Time forgot… Which was just how the quiet queer liked it.
A devised work exploring themes of queer home, peace and joy. Back Pocket combined physical theatre, poetry by Nikki Viveca and an original score by Cellist Lore Burns.
“heart, and intention, and authenticity - Hook draws this out from all her clown/sprites. ... This is real high art.”
WHAT DID SHE THINK?
POLES: THE SCIENCE OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION
The Butterfly Club, Melbourne (Premiere season)
Adelaide Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Brisbane Fringe (Tour)
Long-listed for the BBC Writers Room Popcorn New Writing Awards at Edinburgh Fringe.
Meet Cora. She's 23, self-obsessed, and completely unable to be alone. She's also a stripper.
After running into her estranged BFF-turned-girlfriend-turned-ex, Cora snowplows through a wild few months. From the quest to fill the void, to the constant pressure to know exactly what you’re doing with your life, perhaps all Cora has to learn is that maybe it’s ok to just be a mess.
POLES is a new dark comedy about strip clubs and their customers, loneliness, and the stigma of monetising your body.
“...mesmerising from start to finish.”
THE ADVERTISER
"So true to the sex worker experience. Such an important show.”
AVALON HOPE
“if Phoebe Waller-Bridge was an Australian stripper...full of comedy and pathos and some seriously impressive character development, POLES is a one-woman show about a stripper that you can take your mum to.”
FLORA GOSLING, EDINBURGH
FRINGE
GIRLS WITH A CURFEW
FRINGE BISCUIT
“From direction, to staging to acting, this piece of theatre is a must see”
-THEATRE TRAVELS, BRISBANE
“Urgent and authentic”
“A tour-de-force!”
THEATRE TRAVELS, SYDNEY
WEEKEND NOTES
LADIES WRITE LETTERS OF LEMONY LOVE
Melbourne Fringe 2020 (Digital)
Top Five Picks of the Fringe - Broadsheet Magazine
An Austen-esque romance with a Queer Aussie Twist. Set in 1901 between Melbourne and the fictional town of Toobloodyfaraway, and told entirely through letters, these victorian Victorians lay it all on the mail line.
“Ladies Write Letters of Lemony Love is a rather surprising and thoughtful achievement... Maeve Hook has pulled off something quietly impressive. I hope we will hear more from her - and soon!”
STAGE WHISPERS
