'One small woman takes on the world.
'Following their incredibly successful and multi award-winning collaboration on SHIT, Susie Dee, Patricia Cornelius and Nicci Wilks have re-teamed to create RUNT, a play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.
'Runt, a small undernourished woman has endured enough of the misery of being the runt of the litter. She toughens up and attempts to take power, to lead the oppressed, to rise up and fight, for equality, for decency and what’s right. She liberates sack after sack after sack of miserable runts. And she grows. She feels herself reaching eight foot or more. She gets a taste for what it means to be great. Trouble is, ‘greatness forgets runtness‘.' (Production summary)
Presented by Dee & Cornelius & Wilk. Performed at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, 24 February – 7 March 2021.
Writer/Co-creator: Patricia Cornelius.
Director/Co-creator: Susie Dee.
Performer/Co-creator: Nicci Wilks.
Composer: Kelly Ryall.
Lighting Designer: Jenny Hector.
Designer: Romanie Harper.
Choreographer: Michelle Heaven.
Return season: fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, 16-27 June 2021.
'A low circular wooden walkway. A large canvas sack hanging from the ceiling. One sickening second to realise someone may be inside that sack, before it plummets to the ground. This is how Patricia Cornelius’s new play, RUNT, directed by long-term collaborator Susie Dee and starring another long-term associate, Nicci Wilks, opens: a thudding coup de théâtre that immediately establishes the work as incitement, as agitprop, as uncompromising sucker punch.' (Introduction)
'A low circular wooden walkway. A large canvas sack hanging from the ceiling. One sickening second to realise someone may be inside that sack, before it plummets to the ground. This is how Patricia Cornelius’s new play, RUNT, directed by long-term collaborator Susie Dee and starring another long-term associate, Nicci Wilks, opens: a thudding coup de théâtre that immediately establishes the work as incitement, as agitprop, as uncompromising sucker punch.' (Introduction)
