‘It starts with little absences.’

Chris, a keenly intelligent and witty woman in the later years of her life, is obstinately still living at home, despite the concerns of her daughter, Jenny. But Jenny sees her elderly mother’s vulnerability and addiction – the battle she isn’t sure Chris is winning.

An exploration of an all-too-common story, this play asks: what do we do, as a society and individually, when our elders become too fragile to look after themselves?

Directed by Elnaz Sheshgelani, this play marks the triumphant return of senior CALD playwright, Grazia Marin (Why Can’t Women Be Like Men?, Waiting for Ice Cream). With a cast led by Australian theatre icon Janet Watson Kruse and supported by Veronicka Devlin and Piera Dennerstein, Little Absences sensitively gives voice to those who are all too often invisible: our female elders who have only just begun to live, and their caring children.