Recollection

by Georgia Ketels, directed by Cathy Hunt

26 June — 7 July 2024 at fortyfivedownstairs

Olivia, a mother, pieces together the scent of her late teenage daughter as a perfume.

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In the recent past, Molly, a teenage girl, falls in love with Jenna, a new school friend. Molly’s mother, Olivia, is troubled by Jenna’s insensitivity and tendency towards self-destruction. The relationship between the two girls blooms in secret.

Now, Molly has died without warning, and Olivia is left to pick up the pieces of her life, seeking to remember Molly by her smell – as a perfume. Olivia must come to terms with who her daughter really was, and who she was going to become, to capture her volatile essence. She must take Jenna as part of Molly.