Theatre Residency: The Kinetik Collective, 'My Hair is Thinning'

Details

When: Friday, May 10, 3:30-4:30pm

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide (enter via the front entrance)

Cost: $10 (+booking fee)

My Hair is Thinning is a new work by emerging South Australian playwright Anthony Nocera in collaboration with independent theatre makers The Kinetik Collective.

In late 2022, Anthony’s fiancé, Jamie, passed away unexpectedly. He was 24 years older than Anthony. The deal was that he would, most likely, pass away first. But he wasn’t meant to go just yet. Anthony and Jamie’s relationship was coloured by incongruity; Jamie was an extrovert, Anthony an introvert. Jamie, despite being much older, was interested in tech, and Anthony more dubious of it. But, perhaps most incongruously, despite being twice Anthony’s age, having cancer and having undergone chemotherapy, Jamie had a much better head of hair than Anthony.

Now Anthony finds himself at cross-roads: he’s 29, a widow and balding. He can’t help his age, and he can’t help but wade through his grief. He can, however, grow his hair back.

My Hair is Thinning is a darkly funny story about hair regrowth, navigating grief and learning to make peace with things that feel irreconcilable: genetics, death, who we fall in love with and the manner with which it happens.

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Photo: Courtesy of The Kinetik Collective

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.