JOSIPA DRAISMA

IN DEVELOPMENT WITH GRIFFIN THEATRE FOR THE GRIFFIN STUDIO PROGRAM

 

SYNOPSIS

In Echoes follows siblings Lucia and Marko as they navigate the complexities of caring for their elderly father, Petar, after their mother’s death. Lucia, a full-time caregiver, and Marko, returning home due to a personal crisis, embark on a road trip to the south coast of NSW when their father goes missing. As they face the reality that they can no longer seek their father’s approval, they confront their changing roles and the distance between them. This comedy with heart explores caregiving, reconciliation, and whether forgiveness and shared bonds can prevail amidst self-preservation, differing values, and past grievances. Set in a working-class family, the cultural expectation of familial duty finds them neck-deep in the beautiful but broken bond between the siblings and their father.

 

ABOUT 

In Echoes is a comedy that examines the complexities of family dynamics between siblings and elderly parents and the conflict between individualism verses familial identity and duty. Specifically, In Echoes explores a clash of cultures between first generation children of Croatian migrants with their modern ideals of individualism versus the expectations of their parents with their rigid ideas of familial duty.

 

In Echoes looks at the challenges of caregiving in a modern society and the potential for reconciliation in strained relationships between children and their parents. In Echoes asks us if forgiveness, shared identity and the bonds that tie us to our loved ones can prevail, even amidst self-preservation, differing values, separation, estrangement and past grievances.

 

Written by Josipa Draisma, In Echoes is proudly supported and developed by Griffin Theatre as part of the Griffin Studio program under the mentorship of acclaimed Australian playwright Mary Rachel Brown with the support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and a core group of passionate donors.

 

For more information contact emailinwildcompany@gmail.com

 

 

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