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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Reviews for Recollection
★★★★½ KATE MULQUEEN, ARTSHUB
“Ketels' script is both charming and warm, reflecting our socio-political zeitgeist with well-placed local wit and skilled comedic timing from Keating and Holohan.”
★★★★ NINA CULLEY, TIME OUT
“What distinguishes Ketels’ writing is its restraint. Where debut playwrights can often be dogmatic and overstate their points, Ketels favours a quietude and subtlety led in earnest by what her characters want and need.”
GUY WEBSTER, AUSTRALIAN ARTS REVIEW
“The performances are mighty. There is a naturalism and spark about them... The significance of the writing shouldn’t be underestimated, nor the strength of the piece as a whole”
ALEX FIRST, THE BLURB
“it’s a piece that has – and will have – an impact far beyond its apparent aims. It will start conversations. It will prompt the sharing of secrets and the exchange of deeply buried memories.”
CHRIS BOYD
CAMERON WOODHEAD, THE AGE
“a finely-tuned piece on grief and loss…Recollection is smart and moving.”
KEITH GOW, THEATRE FIRST
“a gently powerful and complex work that explores far more than its story of love and grief.”
ANNE-MARIE PEARD, SOMETIMES MELBOURNE
“a unique form of theatrical storytelling”
PAIGE QUINN, THEATRE THOUGHTS
RYAN HAMILTON
"It actually smells like you're in the story."
PRAISE DIONYSUS PODCAST
“If you could be keenly aware that everyone around you is trying actively to engage their other human components to engage with the art in front of them, if you could hear their empathy working, or sense the intensity of the gaze of the collective... Being able to be aware of everyone's schnozzes being activated... it's cool to be so aware that everyone around me is really trying to fill themselves up with this show.
Everyone's connected here trying to unravel the mystery of this theatre."
Press for Recollection
Interview with Scent Artist Erin Adams, Writer Georgia Ketels and Presenter Oliver Coleman
Ramona Magazine | Victorian Mourning Inspired this Melbourne Experiential Play
Australian Arts Review | On the Couch Interview with Georgia Ketels