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by Tom Holloway

Forget Me Not

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Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet his mother for the first time since he was three. His daughter Sally has had it up to here with him and his problems. The old lady lives somewhere in the UK. Liverpool, according to the records. So Gerry is going there to find out what made him who he is.

Holloway’s brilliant leap of imagination has been to set this story not at its outset half a century ago, but here and now. He has written a series of raw, often achingly beautiful conversations between members of a scattered family. Drawing it all together is Gerry’s extraordinary, precarious bid to finally learn what it means to love and belong to a family.

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  • 4 total
  • 2 female identifying, 2 male identifying
  • 16 to 18, 18+
  • young adult, adult
  • Currency Press


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RAGE AGAINST A SHAMEFUL CHAPTER

DARRYN KING, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 28 APRIL 2013

"A new Australian play, written for Belvoir by Tom Holloway, has emerged out of a shocking, and shockingly recent, chapter in the country’s history."

REVIEW: FORGET ME NOT

KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE DIARY, 3 JUNE 2013

"The work is not at all linear, it has what Mr Holloway calls aspects of 'post dramatic' writing - this is a movement away from direct story telling and is often fragmented and experimental in its form. One has to be alert and almost in need of a cryptic nature to discern the work. Challenging then, but, exciting if you put the work in, I reckon."

REVIEW: FORGET ME NOT | BELVOIR ST THEATRE, SYDNEY

LLOYD BRADFORD SYKE, CRIKEY, 16 MAY 2013

"Forget Me Not reminds us of yet another unfortunate chapter in our recent history. In accepting Britain’s “orphans”, we were complicit and culpable, criminal associates. The parallels with our own stolen generations are chilling. Lest we forget."

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