CARE INSTRUCTIONS

Do not bleach!
Do not tumble dry!
Do not shrink!’

A post-Beckettian tour-de-force set in a laundromat. Who remembers the thirteenth godmother from Sleeping Beauty: the uninvited guest by whose curse the princess fell asleep for a hundred years? Now she washes, waiting for her chance to ‘make another better wish’. Care Instructions wrings every drop of polyphony from the scripted language; Marguerite Duras meets Gertrude Stein on a perfect drying day.

‘…an enchanting evening of theatre. I use the term advisedly. Some kind of magic is going on in this incantatory language: a summoning of the sensual pleasures of clean sheets and crisp linens, the smell of washing in sunlight; a joyous celebration of the labour that invisibly cleanses the human world.’ Alison Croggon, theatrenotes, Read the full review here.

‘APHIDS are another facet in the theatrical gemstone…’ Herald Sun

CREDITS

Director – Margaret Cameron
Writer – Cynthia Troup
Music – David Young
Lighting – Danny Pettingill
Cast – Jane Bayly, Liz Jones, Caroline Lee
Operator/Stage Manager – Amanda Prado