Things I Know To Be True By Andrew Bovell

The script play, Things I Know to Be True by Andrew Bovell, published on 8th of September 2016, was later produced by The Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia. This contemporary performance created a deep, intimate, heavy monologue based play (Bovell 2017, para 1) about family and the challenges faced when you love someone influenced by Bovells own experience after grieving the loss of his mother and saying goodbye to his youngest child as they depart for university. Bovell’s inspiration comes from a diverse range of culture behaviors and conditioning to create a raw and organic performance. Things I Know To Be True successfully captures the cycle of life (Booth 2016, para 13) while also presenting audiences with questions by exploring themes of familial love, living up to parental expectations and grief using characterisation, symbols and set design (Brookes 2016, 20).

Things I Know To Be True follows the Price family as they face uncertainties and family drama. Parents, Bob and Fran, have put everything into making sure their children have better lives then they do (Brookes 2016, 8). Throughout a year, portrayed over seasons, their children face
Things I Know To Be True involves physicality that provides smooth transition and interesting physical theatre that occurred under the direction of Geordie Brookman from State Theatre and Scott Grahman from Frantic Assembly, a renowned company known for its vibrant physical interpretations of text (Flett 2016, para 6). In certain places, the progressive theatrical approach seems unsuitable to the script and averted audiences attention from monologue to movement…occasionally losing the deep connection felt between the actors and audience (Flett 2016, para