After the events of last year, you could be forgiven for not wanting to dive back into dark, gritty theatre. No, the perfect salve for the "Year Like No Other" is a whacky comedy production, and that's something Pot Plants promises in spades.
Pot Plants (formally known as Very Nice Pot Plants to Purify the Air and Enrich Your Life) is an absurdist, disco-infused comedy coming to Theatre Works as part of its Fringe Replanted program. The work responds to themes that have arisen of late – namely connection and inter-dependance – through the guise of Anne: a scientist trying to prove that plants can talk.
The groovy production comes from the minds of Karla Livingstone-Pardy and Zachary Sheridan, two bright early-career theatre makers already making waves (Livingstone-Pardy won the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Writer Award while Sheridan won the Australian State Theatre Company and Flinders University Young Playwrights’ Award in 2019). On the play, the duo said "We wanted to make a work that reflected the uncanniness of most of this year. That proved to be quite depressing so we made a show about disco and pot plants."
Pot Plants shows at Theatre Works from Jan 20 to 24. The production takes place in the Glasshouse and tickets are available in small or large booth bookings.
