The Pitch: Why you should go see Instructions

Actress Diana Bentley on the new Coal Mine production

My aim as a producer and actor is to present plays in which female actors play characters that embody and confront the complicated and often troubling realities of our world. So what better way to end our 2015–16 season than with Michael Mackenzie’s brilliant Instructions (To Any Future Socialist Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas).

In it, a female mathematical genius on the autism spectrum returns to confront her powerful and confident hedge fund–manager boss on the eve of the 2008 financial collapse. Smart, challenging, frustrating, hilarious, Cass appears to be the weaker and more disadvantaged of the two characters, yet she holds the truth, the knowledge and the ultimate power in the room. I can’t wait to dig in to the character of Cass and to share her with audiences.

Instructions runs at Coal Mine Theatre, May 29 to June 19.

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