❤️‍🔥 Borderline

A new performance shattering the stigma around Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), presented during BPD Awareness Week 2023

It’s like the Melbourne weather. Pissing down one day, and bloody sunny the next.

BORDERLINE is a theatrical journey through life with BPD, through the lightness, the darkness, and the rawness of it all.

Two actors adrift in an audio-visual wonderland come to find the other side of a BPD diagnosis. Here, hurt becomes care and rock bottom becomes rock solid. In flipping the diagnostic criteria on its head, we begin to see how people living with a BPD diagnosis are capable of intense empathy, long-term relationships, and extraordinary resilience.

BORDERLINE is created from interviews conducted with people with BPD, and unearths a more human understanding of life with BPD. Poetic, angry, and full of love and frustration, this extraordinary work lends an ear to a group of people who are far too often ignored.

“For fuck’s sake, I just want to talk to you.” 

The Team

Script Stacy Holman Jones & Daniel X. Harris

Director Jonathan Graffam-O'Meara

Movement Tamara Borovica

Performers Georgia Kate Bell & Sebastian Li

Sound Darrin Verhagen

Lighting Niklas Pajanti

Stage & Costume: Emily Collett

AV Light Alasady, Tess Salinger, Hugh Humphris, Huấn Nguyễn & Mai Han Nguyen

Tech Support & Operator Aron Murray

Marketing Ryan Hamilton

The performance is an outcome of the Borderline Personality as Social Phenomena research project. Professor Renata Kokanović led the multidisciplinary research team who collaborated across different phases of the project. Researchers include: Dr Jacinthe Flore, Professor Stuart Thomas, Associate Professor Cameron Duff, Professor Dan X. Harris, Professor Stacy Holman Jones, Professor Andrew Chanen, Associate Professor Sathya Rao, Associate Professor Louise McCutcheon, Dr Laura Hayes, Dr Emma-Louise Seal, and Dr Tamara Borovica.