This Isn’t Us
By Monica Isakstuen
It’s summer, it’s morning, and we’re out of muesli. MY MOTHER, MY FATHER, MY SISTER and MY BROTHER wake up to what might seem like a normal day. But where am I? And how do you…
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It’s summer, it’s morning, and we’re out of muesli. MY MOTHER, MY FATHER, MY SISTER and MY BROTHER wake up to what might seem like a normal day. But where am I? And how do you handle reality when something unreal has happened?
Monica Isakstuen’s new play pounces on the home as an electric minefield caught between safety and tyranny. It deals with grief and loss, the roles we have throughout life, about the relationships and constellations of which we are a part, and which are us, yet are not. In This Isn’t Us we follow a family through one dramatic day where the dividing line between love and loathing, sorrow and ecstasy becomes blurred. What is a nightmare and what is reality? It isn’t always clear.
