The way stories can bridge the gap between opposing world views, opinions and politics fascinates me. It is the nuance of a personal story that lets us empathise with each other and which holds the potential to expand someone’s mind. I want to make work that explores these stories:

Contemporary, cutting-edge and entertaining honest conversations with the audience.

I seek to encourage practitioners and spectators to think in nuance as opposed to absolute truths and move towards sincere, open dialogue with each other. At the risk of sounding pretentious, my vision and mission statement as a creative is this:

Through my art I want to equip others to be courageous, vulnerable and authentic to evoke healing change.

What if there’s enough love to go around? 

My play “Monogamy Musings” aims to encompass these values. The play follows three characters as they navigate their individual experiences around relationships. Far from being moralistic, this play invites the audience to question their own wiring and beliefs about platonic, romantic and sexual love. It is a movement piece, marked by poetic, post-modern and non-linear storytelling.

What do you do when you are happy in your relationship and you fall in love with your partner’s friend? How many relationships do we have space for? What can love look like? What if there’s another way relationships can be beautiful?

The story of these characters is close to my heart both from the perspective of non-monogamous themes, as well as staging queer stories. As a bisexual storyteller, I am longing to see more of these stories in the space.

In May 2024, Lemon Meringue Theatre Group produced “Monogamy Musings” for a run of four shows. The audience was invited to dive into this poetic, dreamlike, messy world: Exploring the dynamics and gritty reality of interpersonal relationships.

The risks. The dreams. The desires. Burning like wildfires in the night. And perhaps we might discover a way beyond this ever spinning circle? A hope for the true and beautiful.

The team and I are in the process of developing it further to take it to the Fringe festival and, ultimately, tour the show. Find out more about the play and production here.

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