Home

Home is a unique theatre experience at Queensland Theatre Company’s venue, The Greenhouse. Described as part performance, part installation and part conversation, it emerged from Writer/Producer/Co-Director Margi Brown Ash’s experience of receiving a letter from her daughter in Palestine describing how a neighbour’s house had been bulldozed down.

This got Brown Ash thinking about notions of home and its importance, culminating in the play. Co-Director and Co-Deviser of Home is Leah Mercer and it’s not the first time she and Brown Ash have created something special. Together they wrote the critically acclaimed Joey the Mechanical Boy which was nominated for numerous theatrical awards.

In Home, Brown Ash is joined onstage by her son, Travis Ash, for a performance where spectators become co-creators as they share their stories of where they came from. In a story that looks at belonging and not belonging, Brown Ash weaves backwards and forwards through time and criss-crosses the globe, also taking her own life into account.

Growing up in the 1960s in country N.S.W. to becoming a young star on racy TV series, Number 96 to moving to New York and studying acting with Stella Adler, she now calls Brisbane home and sees it as her safe haven. Home, an affecting and intimate theatre experience, has been developed in Mexico, the U.S.A., through Brisbane’s Metro Arts and as part of La Boite’s indie season. It’s making a return appearance at The Greenhouse for lucky Brisbane audiences.

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By Vicki Englund