Things I Know to be True by Andrew Bovell

Directed by Ted Horton

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Things I Know to be True
By Andrew  Bovell

Directed by Ted Horton

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The play looks at the challenges of keeping a family together, and the conflict between what parents want their children to be versus how they turn out. 

A note from the playwright Andrew Bovell:   “This is perhaps based on my own experience. I felt like I escaped the enormity of the familial love that I grew up with. It was wonderful but it was overpowering and came with certain obligations and responsibilities. I needed to move away, to a different city, to become the person I needed to be. And yet I have spent my life yearning for the thing I ran away from, and indeed in marrying and in having children I went about creating a very similar family structure to the one I escaped… loving, overwhelming, emotionally fraught but also perhaps a little claustrophobic and so now I have watched my children run away to become the people they need to be. This is how it is. This is the cycle of life. And so sometimes I feel like Bob, being left in the garden thinking where has everybody gone. And sometimes I feel like Fran and think, right, what next? Family? It’s nuts.”

Performances 7-9 May