'Billy and Paula have lost their mother. And now they're lost too. Reason and logic have disappeared out the window, around the corner and deep into the woods. Life without Mum is weird and nonsensical, and grief has thrown these two grown-ups back into the world of their strange, strange childhood. The two attempt to find definition in each other, in their history together, and in the re-living of their past, as they rebuild, from the chaos of loss, their own selves.
'Sandwiches is the inaugural production by The Melbourne Town Players. It is an experiment in theatrical composition that smashes two strongly contrasting writing styles up against each other, and in so doing, reveals the very distinct inner and outer workings of grief on the psyche. It draws together a beautiful, haunting, and often hilarious world that feeds on the simultaneous terror and comfort of childhood, and the bizarre fallout that the recently departed can sometimes leave behind for us.
'Part Hansel and Gretel, part Alice in Wonderland, part Lynchian nightmare, Sandwiches takes you along the garden path, into the undergrowth, down the rabbit hole, and into the strange, dark, and silly world of Billy and Paula.'
Source: Australian Stage website, http://www.australianstage.com.au/
Sighted: 28/01/2009
