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Marooned
The ground-breaking Australian play about suicide that leaves hungry to live
Marooned has been performed over 80 times and is not only a beautiful work of theatrical art but is in the running to be one of Australia’s most important plays.
A crowd Favourite, It has never ceased to wow audiences and has many professionals in the suicide prevention world calling it a revolution in suicide prevention. A claim also made by the Australian Army’s head psychologist.
It was invited to Canberra to perform for the Chief of Army with plans to visit all barracks Australia wide but this was stalled by COVID-19.
In the UK the play is being used by 10 Windsor Walk CIC, a UK-based not-for-profit community of mental health experts, as a training tool for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health nurses.
In 2022 The Institute of Psychoanalysis staged an event. In collaboration
with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, The South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust, and Ten Windsor Walk, where a filmed reading of Marooned screened followed by a discussion with.several Professors and Doctors
The play effectively explores the deep-seated reasons why some individuals,
primarily men, take their own lives. Through a blend of raw drama and humour, it ultimately leaves audiences feeling inspired to embrace life.
Rohana; The heart of Marooned
If it wasn’t for Rohana, there’d be no Marooned.
She was the first to read it and gently warned me that a play about suicide would be impossible to market.
Then she finished it, looked up with tears in her eyes, and said, “We have to put this on.”
It started as an all-male script. We kept it that way until we noted the suicide gender ratio—one woman to three men—and realised only a few lines needed changing to shift the characters’ genders.
Yet her initial warning still holds true. Despite its successful run, most Australians can’t imagine a play on this subject being engaging, uplifting, and even funny—not black comedy, just the gentle humour of ordinary humans.
Anyhow, because of all the vision (she wants to film it) and passion and all the hard work Rohana has put into the play, I gifted it to her.
If you want to experience being gripped and moved by theatre then why not take a day trip out of town and see why so many people have not only seen it, but have come back to see it, time and time again
