DISCLOSURE
written by Helen Collins
directed by Maureen McInerney

18 FEB - 6 MAR 2010
Weeknights and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sundays at 2:00pm

About the play
Written by a local playwright and set in inner suburban Melbourne, this is an intriguing drama involving five seemingly unrelated women from different walks of life. As their personal histories unfold, we discover they connect in a fascinating underbelly of lies, deceit and murder. The question is not "who did it?" but how and why it happened?

This play contains Adult themes and very strong language

Disclosure is structured as four self-contained but interconnected acts, each becoming more intriguing as lines are drawn between the main characters; all share dark secrets, either concealed or indulged by words that, rather than lie, simply "omit the truth" in serving some indistinct, ulterior purpose.

In act 1, Detective Gina Sturrock is investigating the murder of a young nurse suspected to be the lover of a philandering doctor whose indignant wife, Anne Carson, has been brought in for questioning. Sturrock's meticulous probing peels back the contradictions in Carson's recollections, many of which are negated by flashback snippets revealing the web of lies upon which her discrepancies are built. The second act effectively turns the tables as Gina becomes the one asked to respond to detailed questioning in her regular session with psychotherapist Glenda Hartley. Gina reveals an impenetrable angst, an ongoing anxiety - reignited by her latest case - whose origin seems to be in the intense fascination she once had for a tutor in college; it was an episode that left her traumatised by a wicked betrayal and the ensuing confusion that engulfed her. Glenda, an astute interpreter of symbols, reads between the lines of Gina's recollections and is able to cut to the heart of a mysterious death; Gina's reaction to her presumptive query is a revealing insight into the divinity she seemingly ascribes to the trajectory of her life thereafter.

It's then Glenda's turn to probe the depths of her insecurities and doubts as she confides in her longtime friend Susan Riley in the third act, before the fourth and final act - set two weeks later and centred around another murder - draws all the strands together in a painstaking arrangement, just when it seems the drama will peter out, a series of relatable facts unable to find a merging point.

CAST:
Character Actor
Gina Sturrock Margaret Moloney
Anne Carson Lena Minto
Glenda Hartley Tricia McCann
Susan Riley Cathy Patti
Holly Briscoe Natasha Boyd
Tom Richards Cameron South

CREW:
Director Maureen McInerney
Assistant Margaret Hassall
Stage Manager Cameron South
Lighting Designer Callum Robertson
Sound Designer George Bissett