Kill the Messenger - Belvoir

Overview

Nakkiah Lui is a new Australian voice very worth your sitting still and listening to, whether in the theatre, on TV's Black Comedy or on Twitter. She writes about life, love, politics and institutionalised racism in her new play, Kill the Messenger, and because director Anthea Williams just couldn’t imagine anyone else in the role, she'll be playing herself. Cue suddenly extra-awkward sex scenes.

We loved Lui’s debut full-length play, This Heaven, also at Belvoir, and can't wait for the sharp stab of heartache and anger sure to come with this one, a very personal story about how racism becomes just a part of the system. Lui was writing about the death of a man turned away from a hospital emergency room when her own grandmother fell through the floor in her home — a home that was left in disrepair by the Aboriginal Housing Office. The two stories, and Lui's questioning of them (and of their place in the theatre), become intertwined in Kill the Messenger, a night of self-reflexive theatre not to miss.