29 July 2024, 10:00 PM
Lismore Theatre Company’s latest production “Life Without Me” by Daniel Keene is an Australian absurdist comedy that will make audiences both laugh out loud and tear up.
If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town; in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn’t work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But! Keep your expectations low, really low, and who knows? You might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out.
‘Life Without Me’ is a funny, honest and heart-warming story, written by the much-awarded Australian playwright, Daniel Keene. The play is set in the lobby of a two-star hotel. The audience follows the journey of the characters, from the less than competent hotel manager, to the strange guests who drift in and out in search of happiness and meaning.
Life Without Me is about living in purgatory, suspended in a state of limbo excluded from where the real action is. We wish for the characters to discover that the point of life is to live, to participate and to commit. We fear for their aimlessness and their indecisiveness, and we observe their passivity through the passage of time as if waiting for nothing but the arrival of certain death. At the hotel, people are always going somewhere, but they forget that they are already here.
This thought-provoking play invites you to consider the absurdity of life.
“My life just seems to go on, but ... without me in it”.
Lismore Theatre Company brings you ‘Life Without Me’, with a fabulous local cast of both familiar and new faces:
It will be a fun night out for sure!
The performances start on Friday 9th of August and will run for 3 weekends until the 24th of August. It is a 2 hour performance with a 15 min intermission. Tickets are $25 each and $20 for concession and members.
The play is set in hotel and explores the meaning of life so we thought The Winsome, a local Homeless Shelter and Soup Kitchen for would be a perfect charity for this show, the 17th of August will be a charity show. $10 from every ticket purchased will go to support the local homeless charity.
Tickets can be purchased at https://www.trybooking.com/CSJAW or via the Lismore Theatre Company website - www.lismoretheatrecompany.org.au.