Jeffrey Khoo explores how Fruit Box Theatre’s production, SNAKEFACE, at Belvoir Street kickstarts a long-overdue conversation about the commodification of trauma.
Most indie playwrights would shy away from cramming live sculpting, poetry and visual projections into a queer retelling of Greek mythology. But for Aliyah Knight, their play SNAKEFACE - a sweeping story about romance, rage and revenge through the eyes of a queer Black woman in white Australia - is meant to be a rebellion against the expectations of what theatre can be.
