February 2017

NORTH-WEST Coast drama teacher Michelle Best takes 20 minutes each to play Meryl, Tiggy, Theresa and Winsome in celebrated Australian writer Joanna Murray- Smith’s Bombshells at Deloraine’s Gallery 9 on 17th February, 7.30pm.

First performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2001, it has since run twice in London’s West End.

The play was described by Arts Review as exploring women “balancing… inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning.”

Meryl, the hilariously frantic, running-on-empty self-deprecating wife and mother, struggles with being the all-in domestic goddess, while Tiggy, the cactophile, movingly grapples with being spurned by a lover.

Plain-speaking Aussie bride Theresa tussles with doubt- and the odds of emerging financially intact from divorce - all the way to the altar, as widow Winsome refreshingly embraces being compromised with a young sightless man while doing community work reading books to the blind.

Bombshells offers light refreshments without an interval, at $20.00 tickets from Elemental Art Space or www. stickytickets.com.au.