threadbare

Name: threadbare
Start: 2025-07-15T19:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-07-19T19:30:00+10:00
Location: St Martins Youth Arts Centre

About

The birthday candles are lit. A caterpillar cake; the music of laughter, the warmth of their touch. Memories flicker like worn-out home videos: a child pretending to be the perfect grandchild.

Sasha has built a home together with their chosen family. But a part of them yearns to reconcile a fractured relationship with their Grandmother, Elaine, who is battling the invisible beast that is dementia. Can Elaine find a way to accept the true Sasha, before her memories are stolen from her? And can Sasha learn to let go of the many selves they have created in order to survive?

threadbare is a story of family (given and chosen), love and grief. Taking the audience by the hand, the play gently explores the complexity of scarred familial bonds, the joys of queer expression, and the pain of loss. With the help of their life-partner Kaden, and their chosen family Kahani and Riley, Sasha discovers the true meaning of family, and that everyone deserves a peaceful end of life.

“A moving, poignant and unique story of queer experience.”

“A nuanced and thoughtful piece of writing that does justice to the fraught experience of navigating complex relationships marred by one party’s degenerative brain illness.”