Ben Law’s new play, Torch the Place, is a story of family, secrets, and the strange ways that trauma and tragedy can shape relationships with those we love and the things we own.
The play, a collaboration with the Melbourne Theatre Company, begins with three very different siblings coming together to help their mother (Diana Lim) clear out a home packed so full of stuff – family artefacts, old magazines, pictures, and literal garbage – that she’s facing eviction from the local council.
Law describes the play as “your classic family, black comedy/drama”. Family is at the centre of much of Law’s work. “When you put any family on stage, you’ve immediately got a drama I’m interested in, because family in itself is just a hotbed of narrative
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