Elizabeth

Female | 50s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 16

EXTRACT: I don't know why the young assume, Frank, that their elders should sleep. I don't know why they should assume, either, that we might be shocked by their passion. Do you think, Frank, that they think - that she, thinks, Sarah - thinks - that she's the first young woman to be obliterated by her passion for a particular man? (beat) Well./ Stars. Such a far, cold light.

Sarah

Female | 40s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 72

EXTRACT: He knew Mum was close to the end, so he didn't ask any questions, but he wouldn't have anyway. I kissed him - on the cheek - his mouth smelled of vomit - and I said 'Bye, Jim.' And he said. 'Send me a photo.' And he didn't mean Mum./ So when you were born, I sent him the photo, with the date and time and place of your birth, of me and you, with your brown eyes and your rosy skin./He'll have kept it. Even as a baby you looked like him.

MEDIA RELEASE, 2010

B SHARP, WWW.BELVOIR.COM.AU

Details of the 2010 production of The Sweetest Thing, staged at the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre. (PDF: 524kb)

REVIEW: THE SWEETEST THING

TREVAR ALAN CHILVER, STAGENOISE.COM.AU, NOVEMBER 2010

"Indeed, it is the quality of the characterisation that makes this play worth seeing. Both Laughton's development of these characters in the script and the cast's portrayal of them are infinitely engaging, and I think it belies an excellent collaborative ethos in the creative team."