COMA Land has a storyline to which one must pay close attention.
From Will O’Mahoney’s (Tonsils + Tweezers, Great White, The Mars Project) vivid imagination comes this world premier set in a magical place.
Boon (Kirsty Marillier) is an 11-year-old child genius trapped in a world between life and death, greeted by Penguin who tells Boon she is unconscious but must find and make a personal item fly in order to wake up.
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READ NOWParty planner Jinny (Amy Mathews) meets zoo-bound panda Cola who explains he is under anaesthetic so his keeper can harvest his sperm and says Jinny is undergoing a dental procedure.
The characters played by Marillier, Mathews, Morgan Owen, Humphrey Bower and Ben Sutton are all in Coma Land for a reason.
And they hit home with well-tuned performances all, apart from Bower, making their debut for Black Swan Theatre.
There is a great deal of humour and pathos in this surreal exploration of human relationships that is basically about a father’s love and the effect it has on his children.
Coma Land is O’Mahoney’s sixth play and only 70 minutes long.
WHAT: Coma Land WHERE: Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA WHEN: Until August 6
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