Mixing elements of Victorian melodrama, with magic surrealism and silent movie heroines, phantasmagoria's story is of one women's flight from her nightmares, hurtling through surreal worlds on a steam train, pursued by her relatives. She knits 'lots of things' and waits for the fishing boats every morning just before dawn. She is planning to join them, to go to sea 'with the stars and the whole sky revolving around my head'. But her relatives find her - all thirty of them with their red hair and yellow eyes, leaning over her, breathing their breath, crying long yellow tears from their eyes. She escapes onto a steam train and crashes into the world of phantasmagoria, a world of frozen landscapes, gardens of murderous creeping roses, crystals, and a wild star filled sea.

Phantasmagoria is a solo work created in collaboration with writer/director Jackie Smith, visual artist Heidrun Lohr and composer Darrin Verhagen. The work was developed in 2000 and premiered in 2001, provoking powerful and positive critical and audience response.