The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest

Shot for Rawcus and director Kate Sulan

‘When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?’

Franz Kafka

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Can we ever really know another person fully? Can we ever really know ourselves? These questions were the starting point for an interstate collaboration between twelve Rawcus performers and twelve Restless performers. The work played with strangeness and familiarity, looking and being looked at, hiding and revealing, mysteries, secrets and questions. Sometimes the more you know about a person the more you realise you don’t know. As Paul, one of the Rawcus performers, said in response to hearing the Kafka quote above, “Everyone’s life is a secret…”

https://rawcus.org.au/productions/the-heart-of-another