Of Monopoly and Women
Image: Photo: David Hooley
The relationship between sisters is a highly confusing but fascinating one: best of friends one day and worst enemies the next. It’s this complex connection that Of Monopoly and Women is looking to explore through the rollercoaster of relationships between sisters, Zoe, Kate and Ella. The house becomes tense when Zoe wins two tickets to Paris, leaving Kate and Ella to battle it out for the second seat. A game of Monopoly seems to be the answer, but that childhood favourite has the ability to drive people insane.
With a dearth of plays that focus on women, it might seem like any play about women is a feminist play, notes director Sascha Hall.
“The beauty of this play is that it’s not trying to be anything, it’s not trying to make a point about women. It’s just exploring the relationship that evolves when women are related and they grow up together and live in a house together. The crazy, beautiful and ugly side,” says Hall.
Perhaps that’s the point. Moving beyond superficial portrayals of ‘crazy bickering sisters’, Of Monopoly and Women delves into the multifaceted nature of female relationships, revealing the “kind of person you can be with your family or without your family, and the different personas you take in either situation,” says Hall. (MT)
July 9-24, Exchange Hotel, 94 Beattie St, Balmain, $17-20, bnwtheatre.com.au
