BLOOD PRESSURE

Adam keeps vomiting but it is his volleying exchange of razor-sharp rapid-fire language with his brother within the confines of a hotel bathroom that is really set to confront audiences. From the emerging theatre company Bodysnatchers, this intellectually engaging microcosm uncompromisingly probes pertinent themes of the intimacy of kinship, the fragility of the body and family ties: the heightened sense of theatre vernacular and Mark Rogers’ painstakingly precise script exposing the sides of expression allowed no space by the constraints of everyday lives.

Director Sanja Simic explains, “these two men, they’re completely exposed and I think that’s really interesting and I hope people see bits of themselves in them.” On the subject of Blood Pressure’s unflinching punch for theatregoers Simic says, “it makes you really reflect on humanity, immortality as well, and this idea of life versus death,” she adds. “We deal with the fragility of the body and the way it breaks down as we get older or if we get ill. It’s looking as these things which are incredibly relevant to everyone.”

Written by Chrysoula Aiello

Aug 14-Sep 1, The Old Fitzroy Theatre, 129 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo, $21-33, 1300 241 167, rocksurfers.org