Café Table (3 Conversations)

Two old friends meet for the first time in years at a cafe. They talk about the past, who they were and their many regrets. By the end of the conversation, they realise this will be the last time they see each other, and they let go of the past that has been holding them captive for so long.

This production was experimenting with simplicity, putting actors in space and removing all artifice and many naturalistic constructs to highlight the beauty and poetry of conversation and masculine emotional honesty. The script was a modified version of one of three conversations from Daniel Keene’s play that meditates on the nature of human connection and the overwhelming power of loneliness.

It was performed in August 2022 in the Grant Street Theatre as a collaboration between the Master of Theatre (Directing) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) courses.

Images by Marni Mount