Asking much from its audience and then giving so much in return only hints at the intensity of actions and ideas put forth by Seven Methods Of Killing Kylie Jenner. You have to have a razor-sharp focus just to keep up and the actors make little concession for those that are tardy.
Thoughts immersed in raw emotion and then thrown as audio projectiles with little respite given to a lack of contextual investigation. Topics of the day filtered through the broken prism of social media where an idea, any idea gets splintered into a thousand shards, each with the ability to do harm.
Two combatants, friends, warriors, survivors sparring with communications of the highest order. Unafraid to pour salt in wounds and agitate the already agitated. Touching on so many ideas, post dialogue lasts long into the night. Was my past as minefield laden? Was the unsurmountable as far or as wide for me?
This one sizzles in the grey matter like good art is supposed to and never lets you take the easy out. Well, not before you’ve found some demanding truths of your own and discovered a way to relate to your own past in order to find a direction to the future.
Rob Hudson
seven methods of killing kylie jenner
24 February – 19 March 2022
La Boite Theatre, Brisbane
www.laboite.com.au
Cast
Moreblessing Maturure
Iolanthe
Creatives
Playwright: Jasmine Lee-Jones
Co-Directed by: Zindzi Okenyo and Shari Sebbens
Stage Manager: Ayah Tayeh
Lighting Designer: Kate Baldwin
Sound Designer: Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers
Production Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam
Voice & Dialect Coach: Angela Sullen
Audio Visual Designer: Wendy Yu
Producer: Leila Enright
Lead Community Engagement Consultant: Effie Nkrumah
Brisbane Community Engagement Consultants: Saro Roro, Grace Edward, Anisa Nandaula
Social Media Community Consultant: Rebka Bayou
Sydney Community Engagement Consultants: Henrietta Amevor, Bernadette Fam, Moreblessing Maturure
Sydney Stylists: (Niwa Mburuja and Wanyika Mshila)
