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THE ANGELICA COMPLEX

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The Angelica Complex is a dark yet often comedic voyage through the challenges of modern motherhood and post natal depression.

They say it takes a village to raise a child but what happens in the absence of a village? This is the story of new mother trying to navigate the contemporary world where we have lost the villages, the communities, the women’s stories. Where social media is taking over as the means of connection adding to the pressure to be perfect. Angelica finds herself on a ‘forced retreat’ – a landscape that is at once, both a literal and metaphorical space. She invites audiences to share her revelatory journey as she struggles for the survival of her self and her baby through those first few months of motherhood, from isolation to sleep deprivation to joy to the absence of red lipstick to dancing around the lounge room, to trying to not kill the baby or herself.

  • drama
  • 50
  • 2 total
  • 2 female identifying
  • 18+
  • adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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Angelica

Female | Unspecified | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 4

EXTRACT: I need help. Oh what a cliche. I need help. People think I’m strong. I’m not strong. I prefer to think of myself as complex. I am...Angelica...Complex...Complicated. I can be strong and vulnerable although I’m not often allowed to show these two sides of myself. Women need to choose. Be strong or be vulnerable. We can’t be both. I want to curl up like a feather in a pillow and get lost in my bed drinking cups of tea until it’s a respectable time to drink wine.....so anytime after twelve really.


REVIEW

SUZY GOES SEE, SUZY WONG, NOVEMBER 2016

"...rhythms shift dynamically and beautifully..."

REVIEW

THEATRE RED, PAUL GILCHRIST, NOVEMBER 2016.

"...Sunny Grace’s ///The Angelica Complex/// is one of the voices we need if our theatrical culture can claim to be truly diverse...."

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