BEST WE FORGET
Adelaide-based theatre company, Isthisyours?, make their Sydney debut with Adelaide Fringe-award winning production, Best We Forget.
The experimental play explores notions of memory in our daily life and people’s desire to be remembered posthumously.
“It’s a piece we’ve devised around the idea of forgetting and what it means to forget,” says performer Jude Henshall. “From forgetting names, faces and doctor’s appointments, up to larger instances of forgetting such as, ‘I don’t want to be forgotten when I die’”.
Henshall and two other performers, Nadia Rossi and Ellen Steele, play many different characters through unconventional theatrical forms.
“We explore many schools of thought from literature to arts, science to neuroscience and psychoanalysis, and use them in varied theatrical ways to understand and explore forgetting with the audience,” says Henshall.
“The show gives the opportunity for the audience to understand their own processes of forgetting,” says Henshall.
Directed by Tessa Leong, Best We Forget is one production we reckon might be worth remembering to check out.
Feb 7-25, The Old Fitzroy Theatre, cnr Cathedral & Dowling Sts, Woolloomooloo, $21-41 (play, pie & plonk), 8019 0282, rocksurfers.org
