February 9 - February 19

What would it feel like to believe you exist, only to find out that who you think you are, is, in actual fact, that which you don’t know you have become? La Mama Theatre presents an Australian premiere of this extraordinary contemporary play.

Singapore 2026. Suffering the loss of her family in a horrific plane accident, Katherine Lee is left alone. At twenty-five she marries Tony Szeto, a pioneering biomedical scientist whose fascination is in the ‘nature of being’ and growing. Via nano-engineering, Tony has advanced to dangerous and exciting frontiers.

As Tony is faced with disaster, he makes a choice. When Katherine reads in a local newspaper that Tony has been assassinated, she discovers that she is not the only one married to him. Katherine stands to lose everything she believed she had, and to gain everything she never believed she would find. This is a story of life after life, after life.

Cogito is a Latin term that describes the process of thinking to determine one’s own existence, an idea addressed in Descartes’ philosophy, ‘I think, therefore, I am’, or cogito ergo sum.

Commissioned by the Singapore Arts Festival in 2007, leading Singaporean playwright Huzir Sulaiman has created a work charged with dark humour, political satire, and surrealistic twists; allowing its audience to access complex themes in a humanistic manner. His works include the internationally celebrated satire Atomic Jaya (1998) and The Weight of Silk on Skin (2011), and he is an international delegate at PlayWriting Australia’s National Play Festival 2012.

Under the direction of Suzie Hardgrave (recent VCA graduate director; winner of Best Director and Best Production at Short + Sweet Sydney 2010), the cast including Kristin Keam, Suzy Cato-Gashler, Glenda Linscott and Frank Handrum, examine controversial topics such as human cloning, loss of individuality, and the power of technology to sustain life or to destroy it.

Written by Huzir Sulaiman 
Directed by Suzie Hardgrave
Performed by Kristin Keam, Suzy Cato-Gashler, Glenda Linscott and Frank Handrum
Set & Costume Design by Casey-Scott Corless
LED Lighting Design by Rebecca Etchell

Stage Manager/Operator: Sarah Grey
Production Manager/Operator: Jessica Gittel Cornish
Voice Composition by Suzie Hardgrave
Images courtesy of Adele Cochrane & Steve Wampler

Wed, Fri, Sun 8.30pm | Thu, Sat 6.30pm
Running time: 65 minutes

La Mama Courthouse
349 Drummond Street Carlton

Tickets: $25 Full | $15 Concession

Tickets available online www.lamama.com.au
or via the La Mama Booking line 03 9347 6142

Media Contact

Nedd Jones
nedd@lamama.com.au
03 9347 6948