About the production
Which Way Home is a verbatim theatre work, meaning the script is built entirely from interview transcripts with real people, lightly edited for the stage. The production company spent two years interviewing rural Australians from a range of regions, ages and backgrounds about the question of leaving and the question of returning. The script is the most arresting of those transcripts, performed by a company of three actors who hold no character through the whole show; the three of them rotate through the different voices, sometimes mid-sentence, in a way that has become the production's signature.
Post-show discussion
Each performance is followed by a fifteen-minute moderated discussion in the foyer. The discussions are open to the full audience and have, across the touring run, been one of the strongest parts of the show; audiences who have themselves left rural towns or returned to them tend to be willing to speak. The Playhouse has hosted the company twice before and the post-show conversations have, on both occasions, run well past the moderated section.
Content note
The production includes references to rural mental health, suicide, and family breakdown. A content note is in the programme and a brief verbal content note is given by the front-of-house team before each performance.
Booking
Three performances in the Studio. Tickets through the box office. The Studio is a 90-seat black-box space with general admission seating; doors open thirty minutes before curtain.