Triangle, presented by MKA, is not your typical vampire story. The play is set in North Fitzroy between Edinburgh Gardens and Piedimontes (the grocery store where Chopper Read and Vince Colosimo often walk around just to be seen). We follow two characters, the jaded, blunt mother, played by Janine Watson who lets her baby drink coffee just because, and the beautiful vampire student, played by Elizabeth Nabben. Who doesn't understand why Piedimontes can't keep their couscous stocked? Triangle has moments of brilliance. The characters flip from psychotic to ordinary so quickly that one can't help but wonder whether Bret Easton Ellis wrote the play under the pen name Glyn Roberts. The plot, however, lacks cohesion and lets the production down. Jumping between scenes and point of view, it is hard to understand the play's development and progression towards its conclusion. Despite this, the play does succeed in using both North Fitzroy and vampires as darkly allegorical tools to comment on the disaffectedness of the area. While Triangle is sometimes confusing, it is also a darkly satirical look at the inner north. Nabben and Watson do brilliantly and the set is used so uniquely that we have no problem joining Roberts in his distorted, often hilarious, reality.
Running until Saturday 4 August
