“He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.' He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on.”
A teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed, violent fourteen-year-old boy from permanent expulsion. Alone in the classroom, an intense battle of wills takes place - but what can be done when a child is afraid of nothing and cares for no one? What begins as a seemingly ordinary conversation between teacher and student descends into a raw examination of violence and culpability.
A provocative and highly relevant play by acclaimed British playwright Duncan Macmillan (People, Places & Things), Monster doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, it asks us to reflect on whether monsters are born or if they are shaped by the systems and societies that fail them. This gripping Australian premiere thrusts audiences into the uncomfortable space between blame and empathy for a misguided teenage boy with nothing left to lose.
Director Kim Hardwick with Romney Hamilton
Presented by Tiny Dog
This season is playing at KXT on Broadway || 181 Broadway, Ultimo
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