World Problems

World Problems is the new experimental theatre project written and performed by Emma Mary Hall. Not familiar with her previous work, l found it an interesting and rather intriguing process as an audience participant. She vividly tells her story, recollecting her own experiences via a repetitive recall of  “You remember”. Confident and engaging, she takes you into her personal memory vaults from her childhood days, teenage years, adulthood, present day and into her own dystopic visions of herself in the future.

Hall weaves her carefully articulated story while assembling a trampoline, and you listen, you watch her move around the space. Hall encourages audience interaction; she wants us to enjoy, engage and hopefully learn something about her performance. She refers to public figures, cites her endless travels abroad, and tells us of her first period, her love gains and losses, consistently reaching out to expel her perpetual angst. Her language is poetically eloquent and strategically used to punctuate moments in her performance - a commendable theatrical device that she manipulates with experiential prowess. 

Hall’s previous work, Ode To Man, exploring female identity and empowerment, won her the Best Emerging Writer at Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017. During the World Problems season at Forty Five Downstairs there will be a series of workshops devised in collaboration with her colleagues on various topics connected to ecology, climate change, economic activism, frugal hedonism and other significant world concerns.

Flora Georgiou