Angus Cerini – August 5 2018

National Homelessness Prevention Week – August 5-11 2018

Angus is an award-winning writer, performer and director with a background in dance and the creation of performances that marry a physical approach with the written word. His other plays include 19 Trains, The Bleeding Tree, Seven Days of Silence and the solo works Filch, Saving Henry, Chapters from the Pandemic and Detest (this thousand years I shall not weep). Angus has been resident playwright with Griffin theatre company and has developed work with Sydney Theatre Company. His work has been produced Australia-wide and internationally.

Save for Crying
Australian Script Centre, 2010
50 minutes; 1 female, 2 male
Cast age: 16-18, 18+; Audience age: young adult, adult
Save for crying what you got but this little bit of love inside? A big little work that takes on the emotional landscape of those dispossessed and disowned by society. Based on real characters seen on the streets of Melbourne, Save for Crying explores how the universe can provide in ways we do not even dare to imagine. Unless of course those who do imagine are the very ones we steer clear of, cross the street away from; the outcasts we never listen to anyway. Imagine if that single strange human we ignore held the secrets to our dilemma we know as life? This damned blessing we know of as life. Imagine if they knew how the secrets of the universe could save us all? Perhaps it truly is those who are the most crazy who are the ones that are the most sane. And perhaps life really is as simple as love and crying. Love and crying; and a place to eat and sleep the drink of love.

Wretch
Playlab, 2013; ISBN 9781921390579
15 minutes to 1 hour; 1 female, 1 male
Audience age: young adult, adult
Set within visiting hour in the juvenile detention facility where he is living, the young man struggles to comprehend the manner of his crimes while she tentatively tries to reconcile her own story. Wretch is based on stories you may have heard, real stories written in the media, about crimes committed by young men. But Wretch looks deep inside this relationship – the one that matters when nothing else does. After all, it is the judgment of a boy’s mother that is most damning, and her love that survives all. You and me out here can choose to ignore, but stuck in their world neither of them can.