31/07/2026
- Brink Celebrating 30 yrs in 2026 -
⭐ ARTIST SUPPORT ⭐
STRATA // FORGIVENESS 2021
By Peter Beaglehole + Piri Eddy
A double bill of two award-winning South Australian plays that explore love, secrets, and the tragic consequences of avoiding our past.
STRATA // Strata is a puzzle. It invites you to piece together the characters’ motives and actions. It challenges you to see them as complex, loving and deeply flawed – in other words, people like us. It does so by moving backwards in time. As you sit in the theatre in a world that is fundamentally different from the one we knew twelve months ago, perhaps Strata will invite you to look backwards as well. How did we get here? What can we learn from looking back? And how can we move forward differently?
FORGIVENESS / /True forgiveness is really, really hard. Piri’s play is a startling look at the underbelly of violence within an ordinary family living in rural South Australia. Like an epic poem brought to life, we weave seamlessly between the interior landscapes of these characters, and collectively they form a harrowing and visceral mosaic of grief and loss, their lives crumbling under the weight of an undeniable crisis in masculinity.
Ultimately, the only way to end a cycle of violence is with forgiveness—forgiveness that asks you to swallow hurt deep inside yourself and heal it, and it takes time. Lots of it. Forgiveness looks at the consequences of a world without it, where anger is allowed to eat away at the soul.
VENUE: Rumpus, Adelaide
CREATIVES: Designer Meg Wilson / Sound Design Antoine Jelk / Stage Manager Nam Nguyen / Technician Operator Kobe Donaldson / Movement Coach Kathryn Adams / Advice on intimacy choreography Ruth Fallon
STRATA
Playwright Peter Beaglehole / Director Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
FORGIVENESS
Playwright Piri Eddy / Director Anthony Nicola
