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The Dark Room
A lonely motel somewhere in the Northern Territory. Deep into the night, six lost souls play out a small, distant tragedy of lovesickness and social breakdown – only it’s not the same night. A teenage boy from a nearby country town waits for a stranger. Pregnant Emma waits for her husband, a country cop, wasted after his best friend's wedding. Anni, a government youth worker accompanied by a withdrawn and violent fourteen year-old girl, waits for the dawn. As the night draws on, each of them becomes trapped in dark and dangerous territory, each of them searching for a way out.
The Dark Room is Angela Betzien’s beautifully-formed thriller about the startling idea that, no matter how far apart we are in distance and time, we are all responsible for each other’s lives. It is a timely reflection on the conflict between what we ask of society and what it asks of us.
"Thrilling... tense and unsettling" - The West Australian
- drama, pyschological thriller
- 90
- 6 total
- 3 female identifying, 3 male identifying
- women, gender
- 12 to 16, 18+
- teen, young adult, adult
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REVIEW: THE DARK ROOM
JOHN MCCALLUM, THE AUSTRALIAN, 8 NOVEMBER 2011
"This is a stunningly gripping production: beautifully written by Angela Betzien, directed with great care and skill by Leticia Caceres and performed by a wonderful cast. It is a terrific thriller. It is a passionate plea for understanding of those damaged people who behave very badly because they desperately need tenderness in their lives. It has lessons for us all, including politicians and policymakers: we need to support people well before things come to a crisis."
REVIEW: THE DARK ROOM
DIANA SIMMONDS, STAGE NOISE, 6 NOVEMBER 2011
"If, like me, you take a pathetic delight in checking in to anonymous, out-of-the-way motels and savouring the delights of clean sheets, a telly, a neat little bathroom and then ticking the boxes on the breakfast menu, playwright Angela Betzien and her collaborator/director Leticia Cáceres will have ruined that childlike pleasure forever with The Dark Room. Not that I hold this against them..."
REVIEW: THE DARK ROOM
JASON BLAKE, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 7 NOVEMBER 2011
"Some psychological thrillers are happy to creep you out and let you go. By contrast, Betzien's microcosmic short play - just 90 minutes long - haunts you afterwards because it looks beyond itself and out to injustices that must be acknowledged even if they can't be rectified."
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