Actor Francis Greenslade’s ambitious debut play, The Platypus, skips between genres while tracking the breakdown of a relationship.
Francis Greenslade’s ambitious play, The Platypus, will debut at Theatre Works.Bleakly comic, the form-shifting play also marks Greenslade’s professional directorial debut. “I ended up with this idea that when you’re at home with your partner, you’re as“Then when you go out, you meet someone you knew at school and didn’t like very much, or you’re standing in a queue having an idle conversation with a stranger, and you have different personas you put on like a mask.
Greenslade initially tackled a translation of French playwright, novelist and musician Boris Vian’s absurdist 1959 play, about a family retreating to ever-smaller corners of their home from a disturbing noise. But he received dispiriting feedback from a major theatre company. “They said, ‘I don’t think the nuclear family is very relevant any more’, and I found that quite gobsmacking.
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