Synopsis

Sophie Marlow has died, and despite having five children, only one of them, Cian, was at her bedside. Cian has invited all four of her estranged siblings to a remote clearing in their regional Victorian hometown to scatter their mum's ashes. Things take a turn for the worst when the group discovers they are stranded with nothing but some creepy knick-knacks, their dead mum’s ashes, and their own past. After years of living under separate roofs, the Marlow children face the reality of their traumatic childhoods, and confront each other with questions they never got a good enough answer to. Ashes, Ashes is written in a unique Australian-Gothic lens, using its isolated landscape to further highlight the distance that the characters have between each other and also their past selves. It touches on the importance of the foundational years of childhood and young adulthood, and the necessity of having a strong and healthy support system when times get tough.

Content Warnings

This show contains family dysfunction, domestic abuse, drug addiction, abortion, divorce, death, implied vomiting, implied mentions of cancer, and implied mentions of eating disorders.

Show Dates

Thursday 30th October, 7:30pm - 9:15pm

Friday 31st October, 7:30pm - 9:15pm

Saturday 1st November, 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Saturday 1st November, 7:30pm - 9:15pm.

Location

Kaleide Theatre, RMIT City Campus, 360 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Accessibility

The Kaleide Theatre is a wheelchair accessible venue. The performance on Saturday 1st November at 2:00pm will contain captioning.

Acknowledgement

RMIT RedActs acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we rehearse and perform this story. RMIT RedActs respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.