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THE SWEETEST THING
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Sarah is a young woman struggling to escape the bonds of family; her mother, her two sisters and her (recently deceased) father. Contrary by nature, she has fallen in love and lust with a charismatic drifter.
With a framework of reference that moves from chaos theory to family, to art and on to the fundamentals of passion and death, 'Sweet Thing' uses a fluid timeframe to explore the cross-generational random connections that are the unexpected turning points of a life. It's tender, funny, sharp and sexy.
"More than a touch of chaos as love and conflict collide." - Sydney Morning Herald
"The Sweetest Thing is at times poetic and achingly poignant." - The Daily Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2006 London Warehouse Theatre's International Play Writing Festival
- time-fluid naturalistic drama
- 90
- 7 total
- 4 female identifying, 3 male identifying
- adolescence
- 16 to 18, 18+
- young adult, adult
- Australian Script Centre
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Elizabeth
Female | 50s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 16
EXTRACT: I don't know why the young assume, Frank, that their elders should sleep. I don't know why they should assume, either, that we might be shocked by their passion. Do you think, Frank, that they think - that she, thinks, Sarah - thinks - that she's the first young woman to be obliterated by her passion for a particular man? (beat) Well./ Stars. Such a far, cold light.
Sarah
Female | 40s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 72
EXTRACT: He knew Mum was close to the end, so he didn't ask any questions, but he wouldn't have anyway. I kissed him - on the cheek - his mouth smelled of vomit - and I said 'Bye, Jim.' And he said. 'Send me a photo.' And he didn't mean Mum./ So when you were born, I sent him the photo, with the date and time and place of your birth, of me and you, with your brown eyes and your rosy skin./He'll have kept it. Even as a baby you looked like him.
MEDIA RELEASE, 2010
B SHARP, WWW.BELVOIR.COM.AU
Details of the 2010 production of The Sweetest Thing, staged at the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre. (PDF: 524kb)
REVIEW: THE SWEETEST THING
TREVAR ALAN CHILVER, STAGENOISE.COM.AU, NOVEMBER 2010
"Indeed, it is the quality of the characterisation that makes this play worth seeing. Both Laughton's development of these characters in the script and the cast's portrayal of them are infinitely engaging, and I think it belies an excellent collaborative ethos in the creative team."
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