The Long Way Home
Photo by Lisa Tomasetti Sydney Theatre Company and The Australian Defence Force present THE LONG WAY HOME by Daniel Keene at the Sydney Theatre. “July 2011. I am sitting in a small room in a special wing of a private hospital in Melbourne. It’s a psychiatric ward. The nurses tell me when to shower and when to eat and they watch me as I take my medication. In the corridor a bedraggled woman, a fellow patient, tells me casually that she likes to cut herself–I’ve no idea how to respond. I’m told I’ll be here for a week. My overwhelming…