CONCUSSION (Currency Press)
A man, Caesar, wakes to find he is hungry. He wakes up horny. He is mourning. He doesn’t know why. He is concussed. Why is he not in hospital? What of the voices - the Blackberry, the brothers, the hammer in his hand? In a strange unravelling, we learn about him and the violence that surrounds him. Tom and
Saturated with ideas, this is a play that takes the form of a play and remoulds it. It tells a powerful, seductive and provocative story, a Cain and Abel fable in this era of pathologies, Paris Hilton and stressed homeostasis.
One of eight plays selected for the 2008 Playwriting Australia Festival
View excerpt and buy this play at australianplays.org