Windmill Theatre Company » Honey, I’m Home

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Back in 2020 (yep, during that time) three of our favourite collaborators had a great idea. They had time, and we had a bunch of artists on payroll who couldn’t perform or go on tour onstage due to public safety restrictions.

After receiving a grant from the Government of South Australia, alongside infrastructure, production and artistic support from Windmill, animator Chris Edser, designer/maker Renate Henschke and designer Jonathon Oxlade created a stunning animated series about, and from, isolation.

They teamed up with actors from our roster of onstage talent to create eight short episodes about those truly strange times we found ourselves in. Combining illustration, stop-motion and sculpture, the series uses household objects to create a funny, poignant and honest portrayal of living in isolation.

Please enjoy Honey I’m Home.

Where to watch

Watch all eight episodes for free on Youtube.

Credits

Lead Artist, Animator Chris Edser
Lead Artist, Designer Renate Henschke
Lead Artist, Designer Jonathon Oxlade
Composer Harry Covill

Meet the Cast and Creative Team

Chris Edser

Lead Artist, Animator

Chris Edser currently lives and draws in Adelaide, Australia. He has worked in a diverse range of areas – from theatre to sports, classical music to novelty rock bands, wine to beer – so you’ll probably find something to talk to him about.

Chris animates characters, carves things out of wood, was once a member of the video department at Fabrica Creative Research Centre in Italy, and previously designed t-shirts for Screamdance. Chris has completed a Bachelor of Visual Communications (Illustration) at UniSA where he has since taught an animation course and occasional illustration classes. His previous theatre work includes State Theatre Company South Australia and Windmill Theatre Co’s Rumpelstiltskin and Windmill Theatre Co’s Scotland tour of Baba Yaga.

Renate Henschke

Lead Artist, Designer

Renate Henschke is a costume, production designer and maker. Currently based in Adelaide, Renate has worked extensively in Dublin, Ireland for the last decade. Her designs have included working for Closer Productions, Windmill Theatre Company, Is This Yours? and many others.

Jonathon Oxlade

Lead Artist, Designer

Jonathon is an award-winning designer for theatre, film and television. He is the co-creator, production and character designer of the Windmill Pictures and ABC Kids children’s television series, Beep and Mort. In 2023, he won the APDG Award for Best Production Design for Beep and Mort Series 1. He designed for Windmill’s debut feature film, Girl Asleep and won the ACCTA Award for Best Costume Design with a nomination for Best Production Design, as well as two APDG Awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. He has also won multiple Helpmann, Matilda, Greenroom and Ruby awards, a Sydney Theatre Award, PAWA award and is a Sidney Myer Creative fellow.

Jonathon has designed for major theatre companies across the country including Windmill Theatre Co, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, State Theatre Company of SA, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, LaBoite, Bell Shakespeare, Is This Yours?, Aphids, Arena Theatre Company, Polyglot, The Real TV Project, Polytoxic, Men of Steel, Lemony S Puppet Theatre, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Vitalstatistix, Barking Gecko, The Border Project, Dead Puppet Society, The Last Great Hunt, The Escapists and Sandpit.

Harry Covill

Composer

Harry creates eclectic music/sound design for screen and live performance. In 2017, he graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent work includes composing the original score for ROBOROVSKI, the animated short film directed by Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey which premiered at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival. Other notable works include composing the original score for the feature film Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers and the short film, A Field Guide to Being a 12 Year Old Girl directed by Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Crystal Bear).

Harry scored Atlantis as a part of the Belvoir Upstairs season (Belvoir) and has an ongoing collaborative relationship with Back to Back Theatre, where he composed the original score for the internationally acclaimed video project, The Democratic Set and the third iteration of the video series, Radial, created in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland. He also created the score and sound design for Windmill Theatre Company’s Big Bad Wolf.

Harry is currently developing the original score for Wandering Stars, an immersive public sculpture/sound work for the inaugural Rising Festival in 2021.