READING: The Waves by Marnie Booth

The Waves - after Virginia Woolf - traces the lives of seven friends across decades who return each year to a beach house on the coast of New South Wales. What begins as a shared summer ritual as children, gradually evolves into a lifelong reckoning with friendship, identity, memory, and loss.

Each gathering is marked by the construction of a growing driftwood sculpture - a fragile monument to their shared history. But how long before the tide takes it apart?

Set against the rhythms of the Australian coastline, The Waves asks what remains of us in those who witness our lives. Moving between intimacy and distance, the play explores the tension between public and private selves: who we perform ourselves to be, and what lies beneath the surface.

Playwright/Director: Marnie Booth | Cast: Zahara Jithoo, Jack Halabi, James Thomasson, Tadgh Camille, Bianca Metcalf, Callum Stephen and Bella Ridgway

Run Time: approx. 80 minutes

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