From French playwright Heloise Wilson comes a remount of the world premiere of a powerful story of hope and loss in a world on the verge of disastrous climate change.
Presented as part of Fringe World in Perth by the international team of Feet First Collective and Little y, 'The Flower That Fell From The Sky' is an insightful, contemporary fable aimed at audiences 12 years old and up, a loose adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 'Three Sisters'.
Feet First Collective's core company members are Teresa Izzard, Lauren Beeton, Samuel Addison, Dylan Dorotich, Sally Clune and Donald Woodburn.
'The Flower That Fell From The Sky' honours its source material's dealings with the collapse of one world into another, and characters whose souls are trapped in tiny boxes, adding a magical realism, ecological perspective, and a hopeful, poetic tone.
The journey between the central character, Olga, and her sisters, comes alive through an abundance of physical theatre and visual theatrical language, including shadow puppets, paper art, projections, miniature worlds made from recycled cardboard and more. With climate change a major concern within our society today, the play’s relevance is more prominent than ever. 'The Flower That Fell From The Sky' invites young people to unpack any heavy mental loads they carry about climate change and prompts them to consider how they might make a change.
Heloise was the recipient for the Literary Truman Capote Prize in playwriting in 2013, and a double recipient for the Himan Brown Award in creative writing in 2014 and 2015. 'The Flower That Fell From The Sky' is Heloise’s Australian debut.
'The Flower That Fell From The Sky' plays Chapel Theatre at Tranby College (Fringe World) 3-4 February.
