I wrote, produced, and directed this play. It was a huge task at the time, and a great learning process, taking an idea, shaping it and seeing it come alive in performance. In hindsight I think it would have been a more fulfilling experience to have worked with a director and producer. That way I could have reshaped some of the less-successful parts of the narrative, those that were imposed, rather than dramatically earned. But these understanding only emerge from seeing and I now make sure that I apply them to my writing.

Synopsis

Two teams from an advertising agency compete for the new business of a company moving into the area of feminine hygiene. 

Background notes

I was fascinated blood—the natural monthly menstrual cycles of women and the blood of violence shed in street fights and war—one such a taboo subject and the other seen almost as a right. Menstruation is a difficult subject to put on stage, so I looked for a setting in which men would, as a matter of course, take on the consideration of menstruation and talk about it. The setting I chose was an advertising agency, where the agency was being asked to pitch for the new business of a company moving into the area of feminine hygiene.

Production

Lion Theatre, Adelaide, 1992, funded by the SA Dept for the Arts and Cultural Heritage.