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I LOOKED INTO THE DARKNESS AROUND ME

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A woman is found dead by her husband in the car in their garage. An inspector investigates and tries to understand. Was it suicide or the end point of a complex marriage? A power play unfolds between a woman and her husband revealing a relationship marked by loneliness, broken trust, violence, unfulfillable hopes, and promises for change.

  • contemporary theatre
  • 100
  • 3 total
  • 2 female identifying, 1 male identifying
  • 18+
  • adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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Mary

Female | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 18

EXTRACT: When I was a child, friends, I often waited for my parents to come home after work but they didn't. Our house was built on a hill. From the living-room window, I could see down that hill and onto the streets of our town. After seven o'clock, the street in front of our house became more and more empty. The sun disappeared and night fell. I loved that moment of transition when daylight lost its sunny shine, became gray, eventually fading away into dark.


Inspector

Gender Unspecified | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 14

EXTRACT: Or did it happen like this? You followed her to the garage, she managed to get into the car and lock it from the inside. Since you couldn't get at her, in your fury, you shut the roller door, leaving her trapped inside the garage. Now she, confused, cornered because of the events she'd unleashed that night, maybe also due to the alcohol she'd had at the bowling alley, wound down the driver window, started the engine, and ended her life.


REVIEW: I LOOKED INTO THE DARKNESS AROUND ME

BROOKLYN LEY, BROADWAY WORLD, 8 MAY 2012

"More than just a presenting a play to spread their message, zee.productions has been travelling around the greater Adelaide area, bringing the White Ribbon Foundation’s cause of preventing violence against women to light and collecting support."

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