Bijou's Secret is the haunting story of the three generations of women, and how their lives have been blighted by the bitterness of the unacknowledged past.
This is a play about ‘self-help,’ but in the sense that has meaning, not the daft sense. It's about quieting all the voices competing for attention, and confronting the true struggle that is Ruben's and Ruben's alone.
It's a simple story, a modern fable with a satisfying sense of inevitability about it. The plot, then, is not really the thing: this is a play about how the situation is handled by each of the characters.
The latest in a series of works by Terrapin Puppet Theatre to grapple with the notion of 'digital puppetry.'
Four writers were asked to live for a week in a small Tasmanian community and this quartet of twenty-minute plays is the result.
It was 7.30 on a Tuesday night when, red wine in hand, I made my way through the curtain that took me from the foyer of City Hall into the dimly lit festival club of the Hobart Comedy Festival.