Written and performed by Thomas Campbell, BETTY IS A BUTCHER is a black comedy filled with dark humour, pathos and unsettling personal narrative.
Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria.BETTY IS A BUTCHER is a black comedy that captures the fragility and savagery of relationships, the need for love and the power of family. In dramatising the act of waiting and capturing the emptiness of communication. BETTY IS A BUTCHER explores what defines us and asks what power we have to shape our destiny.An unmissable debut play written and performed by Thomas Campbell and directed by Kate Gaul, BETTY IS A BUTCHER is filled with dark humour, pathos and unsettling personal narrative."Betty tells me that I’m a dog person, not a cat person and that if I was a cat person she wouldn’t look at me twice. She tells me she loves my stomach and I believe her. That she loves the sound of my snoring and when I toss and turn in bed she pretends she’s a convict on a ship travelling to Australia. Betty cries tears of rainbow water.Betty is a unicorn."
Presented by
- Siren Theatre Co
