Category: Will O’Mahony

Photo by Clare Hawley Jackrabbit Theatre and bAKEHOUSE Productions presents, TONSILS & TWEEZERS, by Will O’Mahony, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT) In the Kings Cross Hotel. January 12th – 27th. TONSILS & TWEEZERS is a new Australian play by Perth writer Will O’Mahony. It is exciting to report that this new work is as interesting as BURIED. Both are worth seeing if you are interested in new Australian playwriting. Both plays concern themselves with the shadows/’ghosts’ of a traumatic past on the present with consequences for the future. In this instance Tweezers, real name Lewis (Hoa Xunade), has been suffering…

“In an exclusive boy’s boarding school, where students are forbidden to read Romeo and Juliet, four students put on a secret production of the play which brings violence, betrayal, lust, love and mortality into their own lives.” This is an all male Romeo and Juliet set in this particular location to capture the sense of “sexual hysteria” that Mr Calarco believes the Shakespeare play, is, in many ways about. The adapter Joe Calarco goes on to say in his notes to his text: “Put those boys in a school where Catholicism reigns, patriarchy rules, and where simply reading Shakespeare is…