Unconditional | Seán Dowling & Cameron Hurry
I understand that we get so little opportunities to tell our stories and on our own terms and so the craving to tell as much of it as we can in the limited time we have, is one I know well. However, quantity does come at the cost of quality here.
Slow Boat | Anna Yen
There is something about relating to characters on the stage that humanises stories so very much. We can read an article about the relentless inhumanity of the Australian government and the colonial importation of cheap Asian labour, but a depiction of a bloody and brutal desert scene and the rise and fall of pickaxes worms its way into your head in a much more effective way.
Sometimes It's Hot Like The Sun | Imperfect Creatives
I found in the performance and the deeper reading the play later, a refreshing candour for ugliness. The mother who does not particularly like her kids and is somewhat resigned to such a poor choice made some time before. The lack of self-awareness that occurs when an adult berates a tiny child for social transgressions of which it can scarcely be aware. A wistfulness for an imagined life that was never really pursed with any commitment.