What are Pink Ladies' shows about? It's always hard to say, because we treat the themes that emerge from our brains as we play. Michael Chabon's afterword from Gentlemen of the Road, defines the themes of other stories he had written prior:
"disappointment, misfortune, loss, hard enlightenment, moments of bleak grace. Divorce; death; illness; violence, random and domestic; divorce; bad faith; deception and self-deception; love and hate between fathers and sons, men and women, friends and lovers; the transience of beauty and desire; divorce - I guess that just about covers it. Story, more or less, of my life".
And a lot of what Pink Ladies cover in our shows are like that:
In the preview at Full Body Contact No Love Tennis and our four Sydney Fringe shows we have treated themes like:
- aging, senility, body image, delusion
- loyalty, celebrity, stalking and fading fame
- ambition, dreams and entrepreneurialism
- turkey basters
- schadenfruede (pleasure at the misfortunes of others)
- how our mothers make us (or not)
- who is God? How do you become a god? Do the gods play poker
- what lengths will you go to in order to please a mother
- organ harvesting
- when sleeping with your friends' future husband is OK (or not)
- the importance of mothering
- divorce and getting on with it
So what are our shows about? We don't know now, but we will know when it happens, and you'll be there to see it happen.
Here's what one audience member said:
"I really enjoyed the sensation of a new story unfolding right in front of me".
Photo: Linette Voller, Erin Foy, Jess Mallett, Sophie Long, Louise McManus - who's sleeping with Rick? Photographer Michelle Ho
