World Problems by Melbourne Theatre Company

Melbourne Theatre Company is producing a new and original production of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed script World Problems by Emma Mary Hall.

Playwright Emma Mary Hall

Director Cassandra Fumi

Set and Costume Designer Dann Barber

Performer Carly Sheppard

Recommended for ages 14 plus

A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of you. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins?

An elegy for the future they’re yet to inherit, World Problems is both comical and terrifying, gripping and cathartic. A solo time capsule catapulting across the ages, it seamlessly merges the most private and intimate reflections with a world-spanning perspective.

Theatre maker Emma Mary Hall has cemented a reputation for herself as one of the most astute and insightful observers of the shape of things to come, blending a poetic sensibility with rigorous attention to global and historical matters.

Performed with vivid physicality by Carly Sheppard, directed by Cassandra Fumi (Associate Director, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol) and designed by Dann Barber (Bloom), World Problems trains a microscope on one soul to chart the future of all humanity.