Still – Mad March Hare Theatre

Overview

Still: motionless, placid, calm, unruffled.

Still: a denudation of impossibly complex human relationships, where true desires and needs are explored to a depth beyond the quotidian and lives become overturned by the wild emotions that spring from deep romantic involvement. Independent theatre company Mad March Hare Theatre presents this play by Jane Bodie (This Year's Ashes) at the bohemian warehouse space of the Old 505 Theatre inside Hibernian House.

In a series of eight monologues, a motif is made of the idea of wanting, and all the baggage that it carries: sexual tension, anxiety and sheer agony. From the personal humiliation of a failed sexual conquest to the painful state of denial that bumping into your ex-lover and his new partner in the supermarket causes, Still exposes the harsh truth and bloody mess of relationships with searing wit and empathy.

This collaborative project is realised through the thinking hats of five established and versatile female directors working collectively on the gritty urban set: Lara Kerestes, Fiona Hallenan-Barker, Cathy Hunt, Scarlet McGlynn and Jessica Tuckwell.

Still won its British, Sydney-based playwright the Green Room Award for Best Writing in 2002. Now Head of Playwriting at NIDA, Bodie claimed in 2003 she was a "hopeless romantic" — a debatable claim owing to her nettlesome storylines.

Still may have you a little ruffled after all.