Songs for the Deaf

“I want to go swimming.
I want to hold your hand.
Does that sound fucked up?
I don’t want to swim on my own”

Three short plays fusing reality and fantasy, high tragedy and black comedy, in a landscape where modern suburbia and old-world myth collide.

Bunny

Late one night on an empty beach a bear and a rabbit find one another.

(1 Male, 1 Female)

A man, a bum, an empty alley. A Darwinian battle for status and survival in the bowels of Sydney’s lower depths.

(2 Males)

When Becca’s mum leaves, Dad and the kids hatch a plan to win her back. The car is sold, a second hand video camera is bought and the injuries begin…

(1 Female)

1 Female, 2 Male

60 mins total

“Lewis is a genuine new writing talent. He has an ear for the manners and anxieties of contemporary Australia.”

The Australian

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City Messenger