In the Absence of Sunlight

A woman recovering from an unnamed illness spends her days observing others and imagining the shape of their lives, in the absence of a life of her own. Collaborators Tamara Searle and Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy create an enigmatic world in which an unreliable narrator places the audience in the lead role. Radically intimate, eerie, and unsettling, In the Absence of Sunlight draws each audience member into the delicate inner world of an unnamed woman.

CREDITS

Directing Dramaturgy Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
Project Concept Writing Tamara Searle 
Performer Tamara Searle 
Design Dayna Morrissey Danny Pettingill  
Premiere: North Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne 2009 

PRESS

As intimate as reading, as exhilarating as a first date.

Chris Boyd The Australian

A strangely liberating experience …

Alison Croggon theatre notes