I'm reviewing MAROONED tonight for Herald Sun. I'll post it here as soon as it hits print - probably Tuesday. KATE
MAROONED by Michael Gray Griffith
At Southbank Theatre The Lawler 140 Southbank Blvd
18th-28th September
From Media Release:
The Wolves Theatre Company
18th-28th September
From Media Release:
'Written in two days of furious writing, half of it in a lonely hut in the bush, this Melbourne play, that was
rehearsed in a living room is kicking extraordinary goals. After writing for years in obscurity Michael Gray
Griffith is emerging as the bravest and one of the most powerful playwrights of his generation.
'Four souls, one woman and three men are Marooned in a waiting room in the afterlife. They have no connection other than they have all tried but apparently failed to take their own lives. Because they are strangers they are able to talk about their suicides in a remarkably frank way. But as time slowly passes, in a series of vignettes, some of them not only begin to yearn to go home but fear that they haven’t survived. This fear and this want manifests into an ever- growing hunger to live. But despite this hunger they are still Marooned. Finally, one of them believes that their only way out, is for them to come together and explore the silence of why they are here.'
'Four souls, one woman and three men are Marooned in a waiting room in the afterlife. They have no connection other than they have all tried but apparently failed to take their own lives. Because they are strangers they are able to talk about their suicides in a remarkably frank way. But as time slowly passes, in a series of vignettes, some of them not only begin to yearn to go home but fear that they haven’t survived. This fear and this want manifests into an ever- growing hunger to live. But despite this hunger they are still Marooned. Finally, one of them believes that their only way out, is for them to come together and explore the silence of why they are here.'
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