OBSERVER: Heir
Candice D’Arcy, Blake Barnard and David Gray met in 2023 while studying their Masters degree at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Now they are presenting the new Australian play Heir as their first collaboration. Heir will be presented on October 13-17 at 7.30pm at the Festival Hub, Meat Market, North Melbourne in the Craft Room.
Written by Candice D’Arcy and directed by Blake Barnard, Heir tells of a young man who appears in a social services office, agitated, volatile, and demanding to speak to Edie, a heavily pregnant therapist known for treating young men ‘at risk’.
He seems to know far more about her than he should. About her marriage, her thoughts, her unborn child. He’s fluent in the language of the Manosphere and uses it to spin a tale about her life – it’s one that she cannot quite believe, but also cannot quite dismiss.
Performed by Veronica Thomas and Aaron Wilson, Heir tells of shifting modes of manipulation, inheritance, and the quiet ways violence travels between generations. It asks what a woman owes the child she is carrying, and what she owes the one in front of her.
Performance Season: October 13-17 at 7.30pm
Venue: Festival Hub, Meat Market North Melbourne, Craft Room
Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au
Cheryl Threadgold

