Image Augustine - Léthargie Planche XIV 

The World isn’t Made for Them

Currently in development.

Developed through NIDA Melbourne Launchpad, 2018; writing residency at Centre Pompadour in Ercourt France, 2019; and presented by Melbourne Theatre Company as part of Cybec Electric, 2021. Shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, 2021.

 “Among the most common symptoms were predilection for drama and deception, excessive emotionality, paralyses of the limbs, temporary deafness and muteness, heightened sensitivity of the skin, wilful starving, spontaneous bleeding, feelings of strangulation, hallucinations and somnambulism, and fits of contortions and seizures...uterine fury or nymphomania.”
- Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris, Asti Hustvedt.