Jeremy waits in his pristine kitchen after school, chatting online to a man he’s never met. Sonya sits alone in the school cafeteria at lunch, wishing she were one of the popular kids and obsessively studying for her history class. Embedded in their suburban lives, the two drift along while the outside world hovers inscrutably, just out of sight.
But someone has come to visit. A fuzzy, friendly face from the woods beyond. He’s here to talk and to listen. He’s here to play and to pretend. He’s here to show you who you really, truly are.
The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy is a surreal comic nightmare of middle-class suburbia from acclaimed Australian playwright Lally Katz, which takes a look at the moments in life when we suddenly feel like frightened, lost children again.
Experimental performance collective No Such Theatre present the professional UK premiere of The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy.
Lally Katz is one of Australia’s most original and in-demand writers. She has written over 50 plays, most of which have been professionally produced. Lally wrote the libretto for Opera Australia’s operatic adaptation of The Rabbits by Shaun Tan, which won the Australian Writers Guild Award in 2016 for Best Music Theatre script and won several Helpmann Awards, including Best New Work.
No Such Theatre is a performance collective founded in 2021 with the intention of exploring the liminal space between traditional theatre and experimental performance practices, and aiming to create work that is challenging, liberating, visceral and destablising.
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.80 fee for phone bookings only)
Dates: Tuesday 11 to Saturday 22 July 2023 at 7.30pm
Tickets: £17, £15 concessions
Suitable for 16+ (This production includes some strong language, adult themes and discriminatory language.)
