Reviews

Mark wants to be a writer – like his mum – and he spent his childhood reading books and writing alongside her. Now he’s moved out of the family home and into a share flat – and he’s still writing: letters to his mum, who eagerly writes back on distinctive yellow note paper.

She lay on her death bed; the Catholic matriarch of the household ruled her brood, and as one generation passes, old secrets are revealed, grievances tackled, and love reunited. 7 CAPTIVA ROAD was written in 2004, an Italian American playwright/screenwriter by Andrea Ciannavei, brought to the Melbourne stage by Bronwen Coleman, Artistic Director of Anthropocene Independent Theatre Company, and directed by Cathy Hunt.

Jane Smiley loves Shakespeare.

She studied his work at High School and University so much that she calls him Uncle Bill.

Interviewed by Will Yeoman of Writers WA, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author spoke of adapting King Lear into her novel, A Thousand Acres (for which she won the Pulitzer in 1992) which allowed her to give the three sisters more say in the outcome of their lives. 

A 1997 film was based on the novel, starring Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards.

“Oh, I’m absolutely full. I’ve eaten too much!” lamented a woman as she moved from the restaurant to the foyer. Such an apt precursor to a play called FOOD, which examines our relationship to it.

FOOD, the performance, is a collaboration between many experienced creative people but writer and performer, Geoff Sobelle is the lone character, a waiter, watching as we enter the modified space on His Majesty’s Theatre stage.