Award-winning play The Almighty Sometimes offers up an emotionally charged dissection of mental illness with clinical precision.
Contemporary plays about mental illness sometimes yoke science to poetry without really illuminating either. Kendall Feaver’s award-winning four-handeris impressive in bucking that trend, pulling off a dramatic, emotionally charged dissection of the subject with clinical precision.Pia Johnson
Yet Anna’s teen rebellion extends to Vivienne, too. She challenges her diagnosis and claims the drugs have left her unable to write. Max McKenna and Louisa Mignone star in The Almighty Sometimes, which examines the relationship between creativity and madness.In the absence of knowledge, after all, good intentions can achieve the same result as malice. On the other hand, would doing nothing, faced with a child suffering from the mental extremities Anna experienced, be a more ethical option? It may be impossible to know.
Sidney Millar’s sound design is eerie and transformative, seamlessly shifting from atmospheric background music to tracks that signpost specificities of the characters, like the unnerving distortion of The Stooges as Witch plies Girl with alcohol while playing his favourite music. The numbers are crunching for Ryan – an uneducated, white, recently divorced plant worker who wants to build a house in which to raise his baby daughter… assuming he can get joint custody.
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