First Love Is The Revolution
First Love Is The Revolution
Written by Rita Kalnejais
Directed by Emma Drysdale
“Playful, moving and shocking. Above all, it makes you constantly check in on your assumptions. What is love? What is human?” --- Sydney Morning Herald —
This is a play about hunger and desire. It’s Romeo and Juliet pushed to deranged extremes, where the unlikely sweethearts are a 14-year old boy and a young fox with brutal birthrights. When their paths cross, the sparks fly and an impossible bond spirals dangerously out of control.
Rdeca’s whole family have fleas. Her recently widowed mum is pushing her into making her first kill, a snivelling mole, before she’s ready. Basti is being bullied at school and missing his Mum. His dad is too busy flirting with the neighbour to be of any real help. Beneath the light of a full moon, Basti captures Rdeca, and so begins a love story between hunter and prey.
VCA grad Rita Kalnejais (BC, Babyteeth) writes a viciously funny and unforgettable play exploring first love, family dynamics and the inevitable revolution. First Love is the Revolution is Fantastic Mr Fox if Margaret Atwood wrote the Netflix adaptation.