The Black Swan State Theatre Company presents “The Children” directed by Mel Cantwell at the Heath Ledger Theatre

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Although Mel Cantwell was invited by the Black Swan State Theatre Company to direct their latest production of The Children, it is certainly a play she would have chosen herself, as she described it as the perfect marriage of director and material.

Written by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood – known for her play Chimerica, which deals with the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests – The Children is a nuclear drama about social responsibility. It was partly inspired by the Fukushima disaster in 2011, in which retirees volunteered to replace younger workers in the cleanup effort at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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