Loud Mouth Theatre Company presents …
the effect
by lucy prebble
THE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS
DIRECTOR
Maeve Mhairi MacGregor
CAST Andrew Casey, Sara Cooper, Anna Kidd and Alex Duncan.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Ellen Roe
PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL DESIGN
Tim Kling
Moonah Arts Centre | February 15 – 25
THE GIST
The wonders and terrors of love, neuroscience and big pharma are put under the microscope and examined with charm and humour in this Critics’ Circle Best Play Award winner by Lucy Prebble: author of the likewise critically acclaimed Enron, and ITV’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
Tristan and Connie, two young volunteers on a clinical trial for a new antidepressant, meet and fall head over heels for each other. But is it the drug, or is it real? And does it matter?
The quotable quotes from director maeve mhairi macgregor
“in the end, the play doesn’t have any answers for whether it’s right or wrong to medicate, whether the brain is a reliable narrator of our own experiences, what love is real love, or why it matters. But there’s hope. There’s trying something new. There’s an urge to keep loving, and keep studying the brain, though no answers are in sight. Love and science have that in common, I suppose. There’re no answers: just more questions. But that’s sort of better.”
“All of us (cast and crew) have either experienced shifts in our own mental health, or supported others who have had “illnesses” or “tendencies” (depending on your point of view!) resulting in depression and anxiety. In rehearsal we have approached the script with rigourous research, but also with the empathetic perspectives of human beings for whom the landscapes of mental health, and of love in all its forms, are not strange.”
THE ONES BEHIND THE MADNESS
Loud Mouth is a Tasmania-based theatre company committed to producing new, collaborative and professional theatre experiences.
THE PRICE YOU HAVE TO PAY
www.loud-mouth.co or Centertainment 6234 5998
$15 – $25
Pay What You Want (Door Sales Only) is February 15th 7:30pm.
Katie Robertson Loud Mouth Marketing and PR Manager
