World Problems, Melbourne Theatre Company
Friday 24th May 2024, 11am
Founders Theatre, Caro Convention Centre, Chancellor Drive, Mt Helen
Special offer: Purchase 15 student tickets and receive 1 complimentary teacher
Melbourne Theatre Company is producing a new and original production of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed script World Problems by Emma Mary Hall.
PLAYWRIGHT Emma Mary Hall
DIRECTOR Cassandra Fumi
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Dann Barber
PERFORMER Carly Sheppard
Recommended for ages 14+
A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of us. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins?
An elegy for the future we’re yet to inherit, World Problems is both comical and terrifying, gripping and cathartic. A solo time capsule catapulting across the ages, it seamlessly merges the most private and intimate reflections with a world-spanning perspective.
Theatre maker Emma Mary Hall has cemented a reputation for herself as one of the most astute and insightful observers of the shape of things to come, blending a poetic sensibility with rigorous attention to global and historical matters.
Performed with vivid physicality by Carly Sheppard, directed by Cassandra Fumi (Associate Director, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol) and designed by Dann Barber (Bloom), World Problems trains a microscope on one soul to chart the future of all humanity.
