Goodness Volcano Theatre
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Writt en by Michael Redhill Directed by Ross Manson Winner of Internati onal Festi val Fringe "Best of Edinburgh" out of a fi eld of 1,867 producti ons!
WARNING: MATURE CONTENT
Morality. Genocide. Questi ons.
Ross Manson, the arti sti c director of Volcano Theatre, told me, "Genocide knows no ethnic or geographical boundaries. It happens everywhere, it can happen anywhere and at just about any ti me. That was a big awakening for me."
As we speak about the process of developing Michael Redhill’s play, Goodness, for performance, it becomes clear that Manson has delved deeply into areas of history involving ethnic violence both far and near, contemporary and ancient.
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Using Redhill’s excellent script as foundati on, the producti on "tries to erase the boundaries between these distant genocides that we are aware of, like the Holocaust, and our own situati on." In doing so, the play asks diffi cult questi ons of the audience.
Redhill’s desire to create the play was animated by the idea of a war criminal with Alzheimer’s.
Manson probes, "What does that do to morality, if you commit monstrous crimes but can’t remember them?"
Within the play, there are two main characters and each is related to a parti cular genocide. One of the meta-levels of the play is that Michael Redhill, the writer, has created himself in the play as a character.
As the writer character, Redhill "becomes an ambassador for the audience" as the producti on explores the complex relati onship with genocide through memory, trauma, violence, healing and scar ti ssue. Redhill approaches the Holocaust and how it has aff ected his family through the framing of the play.
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