ANTHEM

7-ELEVEN AND CHEMIST WAREHOUSE, A LOVE STORY

I might go completely crazy. Pick up a gun. Bang bang bang bang bang. bang. bang. bang.

Eryn Jean Norvill as Lisa holds up the board of a small swimwear and lycra company.

“This is tough, funny theatre with an urgency to its purpose and no comfortable answers. It can’t say everything about modern Australia, but what it does say rings true." Gay Alcorn, The Guardian.

ANTHEM is the third in the trilogy of plays written by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsolkias, and composed by Irine Vela. It is made up of four interlocking narratives and a musical composition. UNCENSORED, by Andrew Bovell, TERROR, by Patricia Cornelius, BROTHERS AND SISTERS by Christos Tsolkias, and 7-ELEVEN AND CHEMIST WAREHOUSE, A LOVE STORY, by Melissa Reeves. Irines piece ? It was commissioned twenty years after Who’s afraid of the working Class? and grapples with what the country has become in the intervening years. We called our play ANTHEM because there didn’t seem to be any song we could sing together. Just as in WHO’S AFRAID OF THE WORKING CLASS, we were addressing an absence.

“Anthem is a finely tuned and beautifully calibrated theatre work that captures the anxieties that plague Australian society.” Patricia Di Risio, Stage whispers

PRODUCTIONS:

Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival, Perth Festival 2019