You can sense the audience holding their breath Theatre Travels
Briskly bleak … perversely entertaining Jason Blake, Audrey Journal
performances that were tender, nuanced, and funny Night Writes
Phenomenal Weekend Notes Sydney
Director Jess Davis with Nisrine Amine, Xavier Coy, Zelman Cressey-Gladwin, Mark Langham, Monica Sayers, Joshua Shediak, Emma Wright
Production Design: Kate Beere; Lighting Design: Sophie Parker; Sound Design: Sam Cheng; Stage Manager: Caity Cowan; Resident Photographer: Becky Matthews; Dialect Coach: Linda Nicholls-Gidley; Intimacy Coordination: Adeeb Razzouk & Michela Carattini; Fight Choreography: Scottie Witt
“When a man has lost all his hope, he is not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” – Sophocles.
Across the city, three people are connected by a gruesome discovery - even if they don’t know it. Amy, a hotel cleaner, discovers her second dead body on the job. Jim spirals into a post-traumatic depression after discovering a dismembered body in one of the storage units he hires out. Kate lashes out violently at her boyfriend and his dog after stumbling across a body on her morning walk.
Laura Wade’s Breathing Corpses is a delicate yet brutal look at the effects of death on a person and their relationships, and their grappling to understand mortality and morality after their world has been changed forever.