I Know There’s A Lot of Noise Outside But You Have to Close Your Eyes

I never see plays twice. It is extremely grating to know what's coming next or to endure, again, things that didn't work. Only very good plays warrant continued exploration, and hence another ticket bought and night spent. I'll be seeing I'm Trying to Kiss You's show I Know There's A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes again. Ostensibly it is a 50-minute, two-hand Gen Y feminist intervention in our culture's legacy of prescribing a simplified and psychologically inhumane gender role to women, that debuted and sold out at the 2011 Melbourne Fringe and has been masterfully developed since. But its success, and the reason I'll see it again, is in the complex of seemingly infantile jibberish that ITKY brings into the light as both a facade for woman's forced silence and a haywire, scatter-bombing first step towards a language undictated by patriarchal notions of sense. 

La Mama Theatre to Sunday 5 May