POST-IT NOTES
BATS Theatre, The Heyday Dome, 1 Kent Tce, Wellington
11/03/2019 - 14/03/2019
Production Details
A surreal one woman show exploring depression, learning to live with yourself, and learning to live with Post-It notes.
Mia (Brit O’Rourke) has always relied on Post-It notes but she’s written one too many this time. With her bedroom now covered from ground to ceiling in Post-Its Mia has given herself forty eight hours to complete all the tasks and overcome all the personality flaws she has written down. What follows is a downward spiral taking us into dreams, memories, and existential dread.
“To write a diary is to be your own therapist, but to create a post-it note is the ability to write – solve – throw away.”
Written by Ben Wilson (Fred is Cold) and Directed by Keegan Bragg (Almost Sober) comes a new New Zealand solo show plunging us deep into the mind of a depressive fighting with her thoughts.
BATS Theatre: The Heyday Dome*
11 – 14 March 2019
9pm
Full Price $18
Concession Price $14
Group 6+ $13
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Accessibility
*Access to The Heyday Dome is via stairs, so please contact the BATS Box Office at least 24 hours in advance if you have accessibility requirements so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Read more about accessibility at BATS.
Stage Hand: Matthew Staijen-Leach
Theatre , Solo ,
1 hr
The poetic script paints a vivid picture
Review by Clarissa Chandrahasen 12th Mar 2019
The Sopranos is playing on a TV screen above a desk in front of a wall covered in post-it notes. I can make out what’s written on just a couple of them – ‘Email David Chase again’ (David Chase, I’ll soon learn, is the writer of The Sopranos) and ‘Catch mouse’ (relatable).
Actor Brit O’Rourke welcomes us and delivers in-person a trigger warning: Post-It Notes is a show about a young person’s experience of mental illness and explores the theme of suicide. We are reassured that we can leave at any time if we need to.
We meet Mia (Brit O’Rourke) as she’s surveying the wall of post-it notes she’s created. She has given herself 48 hours to deal to and discard every single one of these notes. Over the next hour and a half, we are taken on a tumbling journey through Mia’s mind, memories and dreams. Mia is not alone in this – she has The Hand (Matthew Staijen-Leach), which she can talk to and connect with.
The staging is clever, the lighting design is exquisite and the sound design adds beautifully to the telling of Mia’s story. The poetic script paints a vivid picture and actor Brit O’Rourke is like a talented slam poet, injecting energy into every word.
Post-It Notes shares one person’s experience of mental illness without analysing it, without judging it. We are left feeling hopeful.
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