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HEARTWORM

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Laughter, tears, dogs, cats, cars, Pizza. One Actor.

Ann Hill is an ordinary person. She has done things people are ordinarily expected to do. From the outside, Ann has it made. She has the home, the family, the business. She really doesn’t have anything to complain about – but something is missing. Ann has lost her passion. Now she just wants to leave the planet.

Ann dreamed of being a travel writer, one who took the road less travelled. Real life however had other plans for her. Somehow, along the road she did travel, Ann’s dreams got left behind.

Heartworm is a one-person black comedy about finding meaning in the meaninglessness of life.

The narrative unfolds over a week in Ann’s life. From waving her ‘dearly beloved’ off at the airport Ann week proceeds in ways she hasn’t anticipated, forcing her to re-evaluate the direction of her life.

Form/Style: black comedy
Length in minutes: 75
Cast: 1 total
Roles: 1 female identifying
Themes: young people
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Female | 40s | over 10 minutes
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EXTRACT: Six o'clock in the ante meridian and I'm out and about of my own free will! No emergency, no distraught people, no imminent death, no blood, no pain, no need for bedside manner! Need only smile! (Ann smiles and waves at Chris.) There's my dearly beloved waiting to walk through the metal detector. All packed off and pink with anticipation over five days of chinwag and chitchat! Flying south to present a tax deductable paper on terribly meaningful things!

REVIEW: HEARTWORM BY SHIRLEY VAN SANDEN

NERIDA DICKSON, ARTS HUB, 21 NOVEMBER 2011

"Heartworm is a metaphoric title, reflecting the emotional highs and lows travelled in the minutiae of a week in the life of a suburban Perth vet, and giving the sustained and distinct impression of a character close to the edge, living in the margins of social and emotional fulfilment."

REVIEW: HEARTWORM BY SHIRLEY VAN SANDEN

ADRIENNE GROSS, AUSTRALIAN STAGE, 21 NOVEMBER 2011

"Some people get a sports car or facelift in mid-life. Others get a life. Which one are you? Heartworm is a comedy-drama about the coulda-shoulda-wouldas of our lives, leaving a sense of hope amid the humour and heartache."

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