As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Samuel Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher, anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone.
As the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.
Melbourne author Claire Thomas has conceived something of a meta-fiction, where the action on stage in what is one of the great postmodernist plays resonates deeply within these three women in the audience, as they search for meaning and question the significant relationships in which they are bound. And, to heighten this effect, the middle of the book - the intermission of the performance - is written as a audio drama, where the women's narratives begin intruding on each other.
Directed by Justine Sloane-Lees at SquareSound Studios for Hachette Australia Audio