About Tommy

Red Stitch Theatre's technically innovative performance shows how the emotionally internal wars of peacekeeping can rival those of the battlefield.
Matthew Watson
Published on May 06, 2013

Overview

Red Stitch Theatre's About Tommy sees the company follow their established inclination towards challenging, subversive subject matter. The translated Thor Bjorn Krebs play, directed here by Kat Hendry, transports the audience back in time to war torn 1990's Yugoslavia to explore the emotional realities faced by soldiers, both on and off the battlefield. Hendry aims to challenge her relocated viewer by telling the horror tales of wartime through the innovative use of live-action performance, intermingled with actual newsreel footage of the conflict.

Within this creative, unorthodox composition, cast members Matthew Whitty, Kate Cole and Paul Henri collectively play 11 characters, compellingly conveying the maelstrom of emotions evoked in the context of conflict, particularly in the minds and hearts of UN peacekeepers who are given the impossible task of merely monitoring war rather than engaging in it.

Image via Red Stitch Theatre.

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