ALL MY SLEEP AND WAKING

by Mary Rachel BROWN

'I am not saying I don't wish him peace but he should run through those pearly gates of heaven. If he walks, he'll get caught for something.'

All My Sleep and Waking is an ode to the complexity of forgiveness. Who do you forgive? How do you forgive? When is the right time to let go? As a father's death approaches, three siblings argue over differing parental experiences. Two grew up with an alcoholic father and one with a dry drunk father. There is a family struggle to bury the same man, but differing memories leave the feeling that two fathers are being laid to rest.

'Pathos and humour cloak the play's tender compassion for private grief and public admission of human frailty.' Peter Wilkins, Canberra Times 2001

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