With the Hayes Gordon Repetory theatre company’s current production of Australian playwright Clayton Domenico Buffoni’s ‘Telling Tales’ we experience six monologues, each performed by a different actress, and all bearing the theme of disillusionment, of life not turning out the way one had hoped,-or putting it another way…of reality biting!
Buffoni directs his six short pieces himself, with the evening in the theatre running little over an hour. The pieces run back to back with each other,with changes in music and Jocelyn Speight’s spot-on lighting with clever uses of light and shadow against a black back wall.
The vignettes were sharp and well performed by the cast featuring Persia Blue, Louise Bartok, Stephanie Pick, OliverJovanoska, Phoebe Leonard and Justine Rayleigh.
The stories of a very adventurous woman who ended up working as an accountant in a boring office job, a young British woman who knew from when she was in the womb that her parents wanted her to be a boy who would end up a soccer champion, an immature teenage girl with a fixation on Madonna and suffering from pressure from pushy parents, and a mother tragically loses her baby and becomes a demolition crane driver from God, were the pieces that stayed with me as I went into the night.
Recommended, HGR’s production of ‘Telling Tales’ plays the Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer Street, Darlinghurst until Saturday 3rd September, 2011. Bookings-1300438849.
(c) David Kary
27th August, 2011
