By Mary Anne Butler. Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre. An INK World Premiere. Red Stitch, East St Kilda. 26 January – 19 February 2023
With Wittenoom, Mary Anne Butler has achieved something remarkable. Her play is ‘poetic drama’, a form that is extremely difficult to make work. In some hands it can be wearying, even pretentious - unless one is a poet and a dramatist: Butler is both. This is an intense, passionate play, sharp and evocative in its imagery, visceral in its emotions.