Things I know to be true

• Peformed on the 28th September 2016
• Peformed at the Lyric Hammersmith
• It is about a suburban family with grown up children stuggling with change in the family dynmamic
• The play is set in present day Hallet Cove, Australia
• Pip is played by Natalie Casey
• Rosie is played by Kirsty Oswald
• Ben is played by Richrd Mylan
• Mark is played by Matthew Barker
• Bob is played by Ewan Stewart
• The play was directed by Geordie Brookman and Scott Graham
• It is a new play
• The play is being staged because it is a commentary on modern day family life
• Things I know to be true:Key themes


  Love

  Family

  Identity
• The play was written by award winning director Andrew Bovell
• The play was positively received by critics
• The play was positively received by critcics
• The staging configuration was end on
• Rosie


  Young

  Naiive

  Hopeful

  Sees her family as perfect

  Witnesses all the fights between her siblings and her parents
• The play starts with a bare stage and set is added throughout
• Actors often move set through physical theatre
• Each character's costume is well suited to their identity and the time period
• Lighting spotlights significant actors on the stage and is changed to blue during Pip's letter to Fran
• light and upbeat music is used
• Andrew Bovell wanted to show the imperfection of family
• Rosie realises what she knew to be true at the beginning of the play is not true at all by the end as her family isn't perfect
• 'To stop myself from coming apart I make a list of all the things I know...I mean actually know for certain to be true'-Rosie
• 'I tried Dad...to grow up'-Rosie
• 'I know that on the day my mother died my childhood finally ended'-Rosie
• 'I chose you.You and the kids.And what we had.'-Fran
• 'No one misses out here .You understand?What one gets another one gets in a different way.'-Fran
• 'So now I find you sitting and I'm pretty sure something is wrong.'-Fran
• There's only one thing I ask of my kids.One thing!Absolute honesty.She knows a lie to my face would kill me.'-Bob
• 'Here in this garden.I though that's what life would be.That's all I eveer wanted it to be Fran.'-Bob
• 'There's only one way to do that and that's to let him face the consequences of what he's done.'-Bob
• 'This garden is the world.Everything that matters happened here.'-Pip
• 'And suddenly I feel so cold and far away.Please, God not her.'-Pip
• 'You're going to annihilate me.'-Pip
• 'I want to love and to be loved.That's all I ever wanted'-Mark
• 'I suspect that of all of us, she smoked the most cigarettes on account of me'-Mark
• 'By the time I land in Sydney, Mark Price will just be someone I used to know.'-Mark