Home Thoughts | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

It’s an Adelaide v Melbourne battle for most “liveable city” title in this new play about hope and home.

Home Thoughts.

Home Thoughts

Theatre and Physical Theatre

Rating: ****1/2

Mainstage at Bakehouse Theatre

Until March 5

As South Aussie as Villi’s pies, Cooper’s Ale and FruChocs, this knockout new play explores the complexities of where home is and what it represents.

Sisters Sarah and Clara share dashed hopes, personal failures and a crisis in confidence of who they are and where they are heading.

Is safe, liveable Adelaide really nothing to write home about and Melbourne truly a Shangri-La land of opportunity and excitement, or a just another place to run away and lose yourself?

Krystal Cave as 30-something Sarah and Ren Williams as Clara, younger by a decade, are equally terrific and perfectly matched in the search for sibling simpatico to confront the mistakes of the past and the pitfalls of an uncertain future.

Written and directed by award-winning SA playwright James Watson, Home Thoughts provokes ideas and dilemmas for every generation to consider while delivering a tight, entertaining production.