Kit Lazaroo – February 9 2020

International Day of Women and Girls in Science – February 11

Kit is an award-winning playwright with an interest in exploring political themes using highly theatrical, poetic, and humorous approaches. She attended Medical School at UWA and holds a Master of Creative Writing from AFTRS and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her plays produced through collaboration with director/dramaturge Jane Woollard and the Here Theatre include True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea, Asylum, Letters from Animals and Topsy. Kit’s other plays include Hospital of the Lost Coin, The Vanishing Box, Room for Night and Day, and The Boat People, which was written by commission for The 24 Hour Project through a development with Greg Ulfan and Georgina Naidoo. Kit is an associate artist of the Store Room Theatre Workshop.

Quiver
Australian Script Centre, 2011
90 minutes; 2 female 4 male; Cast age: 16 to 18, 18+
Audience Age: young adult – adult
A small group of underground scientists attempt to re-green the Earth’s now toxic surface. Authorities will not, however, tolerate dissent, risk or hope. Quiver, a younger scientist, is simply trying to do the right thing by working hard and using her smarts, but she becomes embroiled in bitter hostilities between two groups of senior scientists while a creepier battle plays out as colleagues and friends are disappeared. Truth here is very relative and memory is just another tool to exploit and control the future.

Asylum
Currency Press, 2008; ISBN 9780868198293
2 female, 2 male
Audience Age: young adult – adult
Lally Black is a psychiatrist who struggles to keep the lid on her doubts about her own funds of compassion. Yu Siying is a Chinese woman who has caught HIV in Australia. Afraid of China’s judgement, Siying has one last chance to claim asylum, and believes Lally is the key to her appeal. Lally finds herself enticed into an imagined China, unfolding in the gulf between herself and Siying, causing her to acknowledge the threads that run between complacency and brutality.