THE TWELFTH DAWN

The Twelfth Dawn is a compelling and contemporary fable inspired by the characters and images of the final book of Homer’s Iliad devised by Kerri Glasscock, Gareth Boylan and Michael Pigott.

It follows an unexpected and life-altering series of events as an ordinary committed couple struggle with the devastating experience of the loss of a child.

During their grieving they lose the delicate art of being able to sleep. The ensuing twilight world of their insomnia becomes an expansive playground in which their bodies and imaginations are unbounded by the expected and the ordinary.

“With insomnia,” says actress Kerri Glasscock, “reality and imagination blur and become abstracted.”

During the play, the couple travel into a dangerous and beautiful landscape blurring boundaries between past, present, myth and hallucination.

The performers have a physical theatre background, it drives the fantasy and the mythology of the work, which is set in a contemporary lounge room of the couple’s home.

“We are trying to communicate the feeling of distance and an epic journey that each parent must undertake when they lose a child and how it changes their relationship,” concludes Kerri Glasscock. (CN)

Jul 3-28, Old 505 Theatre, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, $15-25, venue505.com