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'You call this life? This is death wrapped in plastic packaging.'
Greta Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find herself changed. She in turn decides to change the world, starting with her family.
Only trouble is her brother Gregor is refusing to emerge from his room and Mum and Dad are too busy to notice. An unexpected visitor arrives and things take a surreal turn.
But when Gregor finally decides to show his face, Greta discovers the world has radically transformed around her and she now holds all their futures in her hands.
A startling black comedy about love and revolution.
The Becoming was commissioned and first produced by Red Line Productions at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney, in 2017. This version was first produced by New Theatre, Sydney, in 2019.
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Female | Teen | 3 to 5 minutes
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EXTRACT: I had the strangest dreams last night. Uneasy, you know? I was lying on my back and I couldn’t move, couldn’t turn over, no matter how much I waved my arms and legs around. I was pinned to the mattress. And playing out above my head were images, snapshots of my life. All manner of them jumbled up like a carousel of dancing horses. And in all this tumble of activities and events, holidays and schooldays, not one person was smiling. Not my friends, not my family, not me. A dead, blank stare on all our faces. Isn’t that strange?
CREATIVE TEAM Director: Brett Heath Stage Manager: Alexis Worthing CAST Alison Benstead, Jo Goddard, Ben Hanly, Patrick Holman, Sarah Maguire, Paul Wilson
"...a thought-provoking black comedy about transformation and how people decide to change their fate, and the fate of others around them." Joy Minter, 2017.
"I’m calling it an absurdist black comedy. You’ll either be laughing or crying, or possibly having an existential crisis." Katie Pollock, 2019.
"...some razor sharp penning..." Judith Greenaway, 2019
"... raises the question as to whether saving the planet is possible without violent revolution, and leaves the audience to sit in the conflict of potentially harming innocents in order to save the entire population..." Laura Heuston, 2019
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