
Wonder is a new contemporary theatre work that
stages the tension between inner imagination and outer reality. The work
centres on Wonder, a woman whose private world is populated by animated
household objects: protectors, critics, and companions. In contrast, the people
in her everyday world — colleagues, neighbours, and authority figures — appear
in mask, rendering reality itself as heightened, theatrical, comic and
strange.
As Wonder begins therapy and edges toward change, the object-world that has
sustained her begins to fracture. Through a rich collision of theatrical forms,
Wonder explores what it means to grow beyond the fantasies that once
kept us alive.