Detailed and finely controlled performance explores high-profile apologies
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By Cassie Tongue
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Old 505 Theatre, January 21
Straightforward and sincere apologies are rare. It requires effort and care to take responsibility for harm caused without getting caught up in defensiveness or deflection. Enter
The Apologists, a collection of three short works designed to consider the nature of accountability.
Gabrielle Scawthorn in The Apologists.
Australian theatrical gems Hugo Chiarella and Gabrielle Scawthorn commissioned three UK writers – Iskandar Sharazuddin, Cordelia O’Neill and Lucinda Burnett – to write twenty-minute monologues on the performance of high-profile apology. The show had success in the UK under the direction of Jane Moriarty and starring Scawthorn, and it now fits nicely into Newtown’s Old 505 Theatre (the associate director is Rachel Chant), where a small stage can become a deeply pink room in a bed-and-breakfast, an NHS press conference, and the offices of an aid organisation.