WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Terrorism consists of six seemingly unconnected scenes that take place in a single day: a group of passengers waiting at an airport after a bomb scare; a wife and her lover meet in an apartment and their sex games turn violent; a desperate worker is driven to suicide in the company’s relaxation room; an elderly woman encourages her friend to poison her foreign son-in-law; members of a bomb squad joke about bomb victims. As the final scene unfolds the connection between each scene becomes apparent: an aeroplane that is under attack. But is it really?

The play challenges audience’s traditional concept of terrorism. Terrorism is not only isolated acts of strangers that are politically driven; it is acts of friends, family, colleagues and lovers that occur in everyday life. Surprisingly, Terrorism was written before the high profile terrorism acts of September 11th in New York, the Moscow Theatre occupation and the more recent London bombing, however these events give the play an alarming relevance to audiences today.

Terrorism is a startling contemporary work, shocking and gruesome in nature, told with a black and surreal humour. The plays author’s, The Presnyakov Brothers, are two of Russia's most exciting young playwrights whose work challenge theatre makers and audiences alike.

Warning: Terrorism contains full frontal nudity