Breaking The Fourth Wall

“This is a story of a woman.

The metaphor of straddling two worlds appears in countless cultures across the globe and often has a preternatural element.

Occam’s razor: all things being equal, the correct answer is the simplest.

For much of the 20th and 21st century (to date), the opportunity to go back in time and undo the mistakes of one’s life has been a favourite topic of stage and screen.

The saying ‘still waters run deep’ can aptly be used to describe Lita Doolan’s audio play The Shape Of Things Undone.

Stagehand.

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

An argument can be made for proposing Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen as the world’s most influential playwright (after Shakespeare).

While there are a number of plays that deal with the aftermath of losing one’s paterfamilias such as Florian Zeller’s The Father and David Auburn’s Proof, they obviously lean into the gravitas of the subject matter.

Many, many years ago, before I began writing about theatre and the Arts, I was ‘on the other side of fence’ – performing in and directing different types of theatre.