An intimate and relaxed performance for parents and Carers (adult
content). “Once upon a time… I don’t have
time!” Award-winning writer and performer Skye Loneragan brings her
fragmented portrayal of motherhood, sisterhood and experience of loved
ones debilitating mental illness.Not all stories wrap themselves
around a beginning, a middle and an end. New motherhood doesn’t
afford the time for that kind of structure. Though This Be Madness is
an inventive and darkly humorous story of many sisters that delves
into the combined challenges of new parenting alongside loved ones
wrestling psychosis and depression.In this fractured fiction told
through poetry and performance, we meet recovering mum bouncing on a
Pilates ball in The Land of the Lounge Room, determined to soothe her
baby so she can finish her sentence and tell us this tale. Unable to
reach her sister Ophelia, who wrestles with a cataract on what
Shakespeare calls the ‘mind’s eye’, she attempts to ‘stay on
the ball’. Wondering what delusions we might all share, she
questions the silent war many of us are waging - with little ones,
with loss or with prams that don’t fold easily and considers how can
we nurture our collective sanity.Though This Be Madness 2019 Trailer -
YouTube [https://youtu.be/2WRFRktJTuQ]Suitable for ages 14+
