Theatre and literature have always had a close relationship; novels are interrogated, investigated and reinterpreted on stage, where prose transforms into lighting cues and dialogue to find new ways into a story. Theatre can offer a continuation of national narratives, too – a way to reckon with the works that have defined us.
So it feels inevitable that a work by Stella and Prime Minister’s literary award-winning author Charlotte Wood would end up on an Australian stage. The author of nine books, including the stark sensation The Natural Way of Things, Wood is a fearless and thoughtful explorer of the tension between inner worlds and structural pressures. What does it mean, she asks, to live in a world that will not bend for you?
