Presented as part of Queensland Theatre’s DOOR 3 program, So Many Splintered Parts offers an unbalanced anthology of short works from seven playwrights and two actors.

Now in its second year, DOOR 3 supports Queensland-based theatre collectives to stage independent work in the black-box Diane Cilento Studio.

Produced and co-directed by Elaine Acworth (Assembly of Elephants, with Sita Walker) and Shaun Charles (All Forms Considered), So Many Splintered Parts compiles seven 10-minute works by Brisbane playwrights, offering their perspectives on the fractures of modern society.

Kathryn Marquet’s Self Check Out is a domestic scene between a politician and his prosecutor wife. While he deals with an unravelling sex scandal in his party, she recounts a sudden sense of pity for the people she encountered at the grocery store and how this culminated in a violent outburst. Exploring the performative posturing of politics and how stories are spun, Marquet makes characteristic nods to the zeitgeist.

Aidan Rowlingson’s The Comment Section is a dialogue during a game of Seven Minutes in Heaven. The script is a medley of rancid, hateful things people have written in social media...