“CityNews” has noted that it’s in the tiny Courtyard Studio, which seats around 100 people, but it is nonetheless a feather in the centre’s cap to have this extraordinary play from one of Australia’s leading new-generation playwrights, in a production directed by Julian Meyrick.
It comes to Canberra as Tasmania’s centenary gift following its world-premiere in the “Ten Days on the Island” festival in Tasmania.
In “As We Forgive” is, Holloway’s deceptively simply dialogue explores three characters’ stories, all played by Robert Jarman, coming to terms with events in their lives and asking questions such as: when is doing the wrong thing, the right thing? Are there limits to even the most absolute moral laws? And can evil ever be justified?
The production features evocative back-projections of landscape photographs to match the characters’ emotion and a cello score between segments.
Sold-out, yes; tiny, yes; unique, yes.
“As We Forgive”, until April 14 at The Courtyard Studio.
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