My Plays
Cate Fucking Blanchett
Witness an iconic Aussie star in a role you've never seen her in before. This metatheatrical dramedy written specifically for Cate Fucking Blanchett is a must-see spectacle that hinges on her incredible performance.
This Play is a metatheatrical dramedy written for Cate Blanchett and put simply; this play would work better with the real Cate Blanchett in it. If not, it is a tragedy.
Prepare for a hilarious tale where sheep are sewn back together, a foot is blown off and the play descends into a nightmarish world of theatrical clichés. It's a unique blend of drama, comedy and metatheatre that will leave you laughing and questioning reality. This play expertly weaves together the absurd and the mundane creating a surreal and disorienting experience. Its unconventional approach and intricate narrative structure will keep you on your toes.
Cate Fucking Blanchett's portrayal of Nina alongside the exploration of complex family dynamics offers an intriguing look into philosophical and psychological concepts.
Be prepared to challenge your own perceptions of the world as this play delves into the very nature of reality. It's a thought-provoking journey that rewards those willing to engage on a deeper level. Don't miss out on this captivating and mind-bending experience. In a wild dramedy journey three sisters navigate family identity and human evolution when Nina's egg donation to Margo sparks a metatheatrical play. With Cate Fucking Blanchett at the helm expect a hilarious and surreal adventure where sheep are reassembled, and family drama takes a nightmarish twist. Discover the true meaning of completeness in this thought-provoking exploration. Cate Fucking Blanchett – a boundary breaking theatrical experience.
Cate Fucking Blanchett – delves into multiple layers of storytelling. On one level, it’s a play about three sisters, and one sister’s desperation to belong to the life she helped create as an egg donor– her embryo conception, the baby that’s born and sister’s response – however, on a deeper level it explores the role of the creative practitioner. At the heart of it is the analogy of giving birth to a new creation. It’s a play that examines the notion of recognition – who will engage with an unknown work? From an unknown writer? The central theme extends further to encompass the concept that just like the birth of a child, the inception of an idea also seeks to be born. In essence, the play captures the writer's journey as she carries the weight of a creative concept, mirroring the desire to bring forth a new life. This is her baby. And then, it is the audience who witnesses a birth – the birth of the writer!
Come along the journey to get injected so deep into a play within a play that the ongoing and infinite cycle of narratives nestled within narratives leaves you so immersed within layers of story - what is real and what is not is called into question.
Reviews
Royal Court Theatre - 'Really enjoyed the theatrical ambition of the play and the way in which the layers of meta-theatricality are revealed to us an audience. Even in its most humorous and absurd moments, Cate Blanchett is an effective cipher with which to explore Nina’s insecurities and desire for importance alongside the other, subtler ways these ideas manifest in the play. I particularly enjoyed the moment where Nina hides behind The Writer'.
“This is the greatest show ever!” Is what you will say after you’ve watched it!
CATE FUCKING BLANCHETT
Written Directed Produced
KAROLINA RISTEVSKI
River Was Here
A Writer who can’t write.
A Narrator who can’t STOP narrating.
A Stagehand who can’t speak
So, of course, there’s A Doctor who asks questions and dispenses the pills.
There is a plot — sort of.
There’s a shotgun.
A briefcase.
A bucket of ash.
Earthlings.
And memories that don’t want to be remembered — But keep showing up anyway.
This play is not about trauma.
This play is in trauma.
It’s structured like trauma – fractured, recursive, unreliable, non-linear, contradictory, in repetitions —the language of grief, addiction, loss, and memory. On a loop — Confounding.
Because.
Trauma.
In a narrative culture that prefers catharsis, resolution, and redemption as hallmarks of closure, this work offers none. Instead, it dwells in the unresolved, and picks at the scab that hasn’t healed. It sits in the quiet act of listening to what’s NOT said.
This play doesn’t nudge — it jolts, like a cattle-prod— and some of you will flee. But for the ones who stay—You’ll have front row seats inside an artist’s mind staging its own psyche!
Awards
25th Patrick White Playwrights Award
Reviews
Sydney Theatre Company - ‘In equal parts joyous, devastating, and confounding, River Was Here is an accomplished portrait of human trauma. The play threads disparate strands including writers block and the death of River Phoenix, with others that the judges didn’t even know they are reading. Expertly embracing varied theatrical form including meta-theatrics, misdirect, and farce, this play is an archaeological dig into the life of an artist.’
What you’ll say after you’ve watched it!
‘WOW! What did I just watch? Whatever that was - it was AMAZING!
‘I thought I saw the greatest show ever when I saw Cate Fucking Blanchett, now I’m not too sure. Can both be the greatest?’
Ramblings
I’m just getting started.
In an epoch where Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Trump became President not once but twice, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali died, DAMN won the Pulitzer Prize for Music making Kendrick Lamar the first non-jazz or classical artist to win, and upon collecting his award, the new Pulitzer administrator (the first Woman and African American to lead the organisation) said ‘Congratulations, looks like we're both making history this year.’ The century's biggest Supermoon proved to be the century’s biggest Superfail and music sent its best to Heaven — Bowie, Prince, Cohen, Franklin, Jackson, Houston and Michael…Yet, at eighty-eight, Engelbert Humperdinck just finished an Australian tour where I took my mother for the enth time, talk about keeping classics alive…one thing is clear -
I’m just getting started.
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