Crows

By Robert Lewis and Ryan Enniss. Directed by Robert Lewis. 

14 June 2025, Campbells Creek Community Centre Reserve, Elizabeth St, Campbells Creek, Victoria as part of the Neurokin Arts Festival

A thread of chance. A whisper of ghosts. A mess of memory.

Crows is a kaleidoscopic journey of interwoven monologues — where lives brush against each other in unexpected ways and pasts refuse to stay buried. Think fragmented storytelling with heart, humour, and a haunting edge.

This new play is a series of monologues that examine the issues of relationships, anxiety, and paranoia in a humorous, poignant, and sometimes absurd way. We see ten characters navigating their way through life while dealing with the ghosts of their past. The characters are linked together by a thread of chance happenings that they encounter through their journey.

‘Dent’ is about obsession and delusions, ‘Pink’ about a relationship between father and son, ‘Dust’, about loss and neglected fatherhood, ‘Scratch’, about suspicion, paranoia, and dirty money, Shit’ about juggling multiple relationships and a monkey suit, ‘Smile’ about catching your so called partner out, ‘Flags’ is about domestic abuse and the signs leading up to it, ‘Omen’ is about impending doom and the negative energy consuming the area, ‘Demons’, which is about not only exercising the demons from others, but the demons from the past, and ‘Queen’, about masculinity and divine intervention.

Written in a unique style where each playwright writes a monologue, then passes it on to the other to extract more form the narrative in a literary tennis match.

Minimum of 1 male presenting and 1 female presenting actors to play multiple roles, up to a maximum of 6 male presenting actors, and 4 female presenting actors. 

Length: 90 min.