The Myth of Julian Rose
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
A playwright friend recently asked if I could photograph his upcoming play.
“The Myth of Julian Rose” it’s called.
This solemn and distortive play opens a can of festering worms into the incredulousness of maternal sexual child-abuse.
An unsettling theme flowing though the play like a toxic undercurrent, the main character (and audience) is terrorised by a demonic Minotaur presumably an allegory of suppressed memory thanks to an ignoble mother.
The lack of forgiveness can be seen as a destructive energy, wreaking havoc upon personalities. Yet this morbid glee has another side.
“The Myth of Julian Rose” is elegiacally puzzling as it is avant-gardist. It’s a squeamish, guileful and instructive invitation of contempt from the audience.
And if had that impact. It got through.
The Myth of Julian Rose, Perth Cultural Centre 53 James Street, Northbridge 8 – 26 June 2010, $25 Full/$20 Con
Bookings through The Blue Room Theatre or (08) 9227 7005
