JACK AND MILLIE
Returning for a third season, Alaine Beek shares a witty, gritty and important Australian work based on her personal experience of traversing the mental challenges and funny moments of a cancer diagnosis. Complete with lashings of laughter, Jack and Millie brings together Beek, Phil Cameron-Smith, Green-Room award winner Ross Daniels and Director Nigel Sutton to the Bluestone Church Arts Space in Footscray as part the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October, to laugh at our personal foibles and celebrate our ability to find resilience in the most challenging moments.
Centring on Millie, a fifty-something professional at the peak of her career, Jack and Millie, explores how quickly a life can unravel with an unexpected cancer diagnosis. Millie deals with her shocking news by creating an imaginary friend, Jack. Jack helps her make sense of a world that is completely turned upside down.
Performed originally in 2021, Jack and Millie received glowing reviews: “It is heartfelt and speaks to something many people don’t know how to express in a kind, funny, warm way” and “It is incredibly accessible, and lovely example of storytelling in its simplest form” wrote Theatre Travels.
Melbourne Observer said “Jack and Millie is an illuminating and honest play about contemplating death. Despite the bleak theme… it is funny and quirky in equal measure.”
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Outstanding and very dugestabke depiction of life with breast cancer.
This is a masterpiece of art!!! The plot/storyline, the acting, the "minimalistic" set of props on the stage, the multiple roles played by one of the actors,... it was ALL amazing ... and all of that stimulates the brain to use imagination, fill in the blanks, find its own interpretation, and so on.
Alaine Beek, Phil Cameron-Smith, and Ross Daniels, brought masterful acting to the stage!
This theatre piece is one of the most surprising in so many superlative terms. It is "unusual" and quite different from most theatrical plays, all in positive ways.
To sum up: this is one GREAT and OUTSTANDING theatre show, easily among the best I've ever seen.
p.s. I can't wait to see the other two shows the author (Alaine Beek) wrote and set on a stage!
Well done funny and thought provoking