La Mama and Aphids present

CARE INSTRUCTIONS

'...an enchanting evening of theatre. I use the term advisedly. Some kind of magic is going on in this incantatory language: a summoning of the sensual pleasures of clean sheets and crisp linens, the smell of washing in sunlight; a joyous celebration of the labour that invisibly cleanses the human world.' Alison Croggon, theatrenotes, Read the full review here.

DIRECTOR: Margaret CAMERON
WRITER: Cynthia TROUP
PERFORMERS: Jane BAYLY, Liz JONES, Caroline LEE
MUSIC: David YOUNG
LIGHTING DESIGN: Danny PETTINGILL
OPERATOR/STAGE MANAGER: Amanda PRADO

First performance season:

Nov 19-29, 2008
Carlton Courthouse, 349 Drummond Street, Carlton

'...The Aphids are another facet in the theatrical gemstone...' Herald Sun

CARE INSTRUCTIONS

'Do not bleach!
Do not tumble dry!
Do not shrink!'

A post-Beckettian tour-de-force set in a laundromat. Who remembers the thirteenth godmother from Sleeping Beauty: the uninvited guest by whose curse the princess fell asleep for a hundred years? Now she washes, waiting for her chance to 'make another better wish'. Care Instructions wrings every drop of polyphony from the scripted language; Marguerite Duras meets Gertrude Stein on a perfect drying day.