BLOOD PRESSURE
by Mark Rogers
A Bodysnatchers Production
Old Fitzroy Theatre, 2012
Michael is late. Adam keeps vomiting. Two men face off in a hotel room. They mark each other with new scars, while tearing apart the old. Blood is shed. This claustrophobic new play looks at the intimacy of kinship, the fragility of the body, and the phantom limbs of family.
Blood Pressure is a razor-sharp play about family, guilt and difficult choices.
Director: Sanja Simić
Dramaturg: Jennifer Medway
Lighting Designer: Toby Knyvett
Sound Designer: Tegan Nicholls
Photographer: Carly Young
CAST
Wade Briggs and Alex Millwood
REVIEWS
Simic has directed her actors firmly, by the look of it: Briggs and Millwood never really seem like they're acting. Can there be a higher compliment?
- Australian Stage
Wade Briggs as Adam, and Alexander Millwood as Michael, give astonishing performances. The casting is remarkable and one is left asking how real is real? The acting is, often, uncomfortably, moving.
- Kevin Jackson