'An uncompromising cinematic slap to the face from co-directors Trudy Hellier and Susie Dee, and writer, celebrated playwright Patricia Cornelius, the shattering new Australian conversation-starter SHIT is a psychological drama which unfolds over one long night of incarceration in a bleak holding cell.
'Caged for hours on end, tough-nuts Billy (Nicci Wilks), Bobby (Sarah Ward) and Sam (Peta Brady) slowly, uncertainly reveal their stories to each other. Theirs are stories of a lifetime of violence, of abuse, and of institutionalisation, and they’re all told with unsentimental, sometimes comical, and often gut-wrenching insight.'
Source: Inner West Film Festival.
'Written by Patricia Cornelius, one of Australia’s most celebrated playwrights and a Windham-Campbell prize winner, the micro-budget Melbourne feature Shit began life as a play (2015), with its powerhouse cast of three – Peta Brady, Nicci Wilks and Sarah Ward – all on stage for the show’s entirety. Their characters Sam, Billy and Bobby, respectively, it emerges, had all been complicit in the perpetration of a horrific and wanton crime; throughout the show, they attempt to come to terms with the grim fate that likely awaits them, while ruminating over how their hardscrabble lives, marked by unrelenting, underclass struggles, were never destined to amount to anything.' (Introduction)
'Written by Patricia Cornelius, one of Australia’s most celebrated playwrights and a Windham-Campbell prize winner, the micro-budget Melbourne feature Shit began life as a play (2015), with its powerhouse cast of three – Peta Brady, Nicci Wilks and Sarah Ward – all on stage for the show’s entirety. Their characters Sam, Billy and Bobby, respectively, it emerges, had all been complicit in the perpetration of a horrific and wanton crime; throughout the show, they attempt to come to terms with the grim fate that likely awaits them, while ruminating over how their hardscrabble lives, marked by unrelenting, underclass struggles, were never destined to amount to anything.' (Introduction)
