ROSIE (Tilda Cobham-Hervy) has returned home after an aborted gap year world trip. 

The boy who stole her heart also stole her iPad and the contents of her wallet, and to lick her wounds she has retreated to the comfort and the safety of her Australian suburban home and her loving family.

However these picket fences are concealing long-buried secrets, and as a trickle of revelations turns into a flood Rosie finds herself less certain of the basic truths she took for granted.

Rosie is a passive observer, taking a year off from life so she can watch and learn, always present but rarely the centre of events.  This shifts the focus to her larger-than-life parents Bob (Paul Blackwell) and Fran (Eugenia Fragos), working class battlers who scrimped to create their own suburban heaven and a better life for their children.

Superficially, Bob and Fran are living their Australian Dream, but as they discover more about the secret lives of their children they are forced to turn a magnifying glass on their own marriage, hunting for what went wrong in their own lives.

With this play Andrew Bovell solidifies his reputation as one of Australia’s greatest playwrights, creating an instantly recognisable and unmistakably Australian family and showing in equal measure the love that binds them together and the damage they are capable of doing to one another.

Innovative presentation by movement devisers Frantic Assembly elevate an already strong script, with balletic movement creating transcendent moments during extended monologues.

“Things I Know To Be True” is an instant classic,  a playwright and company at the top of their game creating a work of modern suburban folklore.