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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: The Blind Eye Trilogy is on at the Actors Hub

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Speaker 2: Studios in East Perth this Saturday and next Saturday. Ticket

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Speaker 2: sore through Tribe Booking dot com. This is not your

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Speaker 2: typical night at the theater. This is not the importance

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Speaker 2: of being ernest student, although it is important and in

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Speaker 2: his earnest. Amanda Cruz is the writer and director of

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Speaker 2: the blind Trilogy and the best person obviously to tell

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Speaker 2: us what it's about. Hello, Amanda, Hello, this is Madis

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Speaker 2: of Whopper Grad. When you came out with a certificate

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Speaker 2: of Musical Theater. This is not necessarily what I expected.

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Speaker 3: No, no, alth I did. I did a batchel of

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Speaker 3: abouts in performing arts, which actually lends itself.

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Speaker 2: So well, yeah, so tell us about Obviously, there are

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Speaker 2: three stories and they're all heavy subject matter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're fun though, yeah. So yeah. So the blind

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Speaker 3: Ie Trilogy looks at the things in a community, current

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Speaker 3: community that we're turning a blind eye to, and they

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Speaker 3: deal with the violence on our streets, on our screens

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Speaker 3: and in our homes. So the first in the trilogy

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Speaker 3: is One Punch Wonder, which looks at the one punch

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Speaker 3: epidemic around Australia and we are the capital of the

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Speaker 3: one punch epidemic in the world.

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Speaker 4: How marvelous for us Gold medalist.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it was one of those things that we

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Speaker 3: thought it was very important to start talking about. And

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Speaker 3: that looks at how we're raising our boys and this

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Speaker 3: buzzword toxic masculinity and what does that really mean? And

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Speaker 3: you know, is it an accurate quote? The second in

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Speaker 3: the trilogy is The Innocent Pawn, which looks at objectification

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Speaker 3: of men and women in our current culture due to

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Speaker 3: the influx of internet porn and how internet porn has

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Speaker 3: sort of changed everything there. And then the final in

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Speaker 3: the trilogy, is there anybody out there? And that looks

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Speaker 3: at romantic love and what we teach our children around

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Speaker 3: this idea of romantic love which has actually become more

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Speaker 3: popular than religion itself. And are these concepts making it

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Speaker 3: absolutely impossible for our children to have success in relationships?

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Speaker 3: And can it actually lead to things like domestic violence?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Okay, so sometimes it's a bad expectation. Then, Mada,

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Speaker 4: can you dig We've been talking about how you've doug

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Speaker 4: so deep with your research and this is almost like

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Speaker 4: befod acting some of the lenks you've gone to. Can

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Speaker 4: you tell us what the things you got up to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a verbatim piece, which means that what

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Speaker 3: we started off interviewing people around Western Australia and then

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Speaker 3: Australia and then you know, with COVID around the world

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Speaker 3: on these issues. So the actors actually are portraying the

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Speaker 3: people that they interviewed and so they sound exactly like them.

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Speaker 3: And so we put together all these interviews and we

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Speaker 3: looked at things like the victims, the perpetrators, the families,

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Speaker 3: the you know, the medical profession, the police, the you know,

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Speaker 3: the politicians, the lawyers, the legal system around all these issues.

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Speaker 3: So it becomes this really full, rich conversation that actually

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Speaker 3: excites people, so they come and see the show and

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Speaker 3: then they're really pumped to continue conversation in the foyer afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and that's part of the point of the trilogy. Ben.

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Speaker 2: You see the first one and you have a break,

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Speaker 2: then you see the second one break, and then you

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Speaker 2: see the third all in one guy, So if you

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Speaker 2: can handle it, Yeah, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's a big it's a big conversation that we're after

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Speaker 3: the show is actually incite conversation, and it's over two weekends,

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Speaker 3: so you don't need to see all three in one

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Speaker 3: one Saturday. You can back it up a bit, but

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Speaker 3: it's that conversation and these are just conversation starters, and

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Speaker 3: people jump on camera and also continue the conversation in

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Speaker 3: a much larger around Australity conversation that we're putting together.

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Speaker 2: You've brought Adam with you, Adam lew and harton morning.

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Speaker 2: Are you in one of these? Are you in all three?

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Speaker 1: I'm in all three?

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Speaker 2: And I can't even imagine how seven hours of such heavy,

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Speaker 2: sort of you know, content, it would be so exhausting.

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Speaker 1: It's there are big shows, and to differing degrees, they're

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Speaker 1: very physical and acrobatic because because there's such heavy themes,

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Speaker 1: we wanted to make sure that the content doesn't become

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Speaker 1: alienating or too heavy. So the way that it's done,

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Speaker 1: like One Bunch of Wonder is set in a boxing ring,

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Speaker 1: and it's very acrobatic, and we're flipping each other and

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Speaker 1: smashing into each other and all sorts of sort of

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Speaker 1: spectacular things to balance out the content, and so they

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Speaker 1: can get quite physical. But I feel very lucky to

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Speaker 1: do what I do. I think the shows transcend any

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Speaker 1: kind of tiredness that there would be because of how

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Speaker 1: important they are, and afterwards, the conversations that we have

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Speaker 1: the impact on community is so tangible. It's definitely worth

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Speaker 1: long days. And I also love what I do. I'm

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Speaker 1: very fortunate to be able to do that now.

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Speaker 4: Unlike the audience, you don't get to pick and choose

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Speaker 4: and say I'll do to this week and one next.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, we get there. There's a cast across

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Speaker 1: the whole trilogy of nine and to differing levels, but

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Speaker 1: there's there's three of us who are doing all three

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Speaker 1: and yeah, big days, but really looking forward.

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Speaker 2: To what's the main theme of the reaction that you

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Speaker 2: get from the audience, especially the ones that.

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Speaker 3: Do the whole three gratitude Really late people want to

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Speaker 3: talk about this. Perth is ready to talk about it there.

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Speaker 3: You know, they're tired of these things that are you know,

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Speaker 3: going on and not being able to have a voice.

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Speaker 3: It really brings communities together and starts people talking. And

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Speaker 3: you know, we did a tour around Western Australia and

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Speaker 3: we were in I can't remember where we were.

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Speaker 1: We went all through wa we went all up to

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Speaker 1: Carratha and we went as far as espirins.

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Speaker 3: So then we were in Ravensow and we were having

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Speaker 3: breakfast the next day and this elderly man came up

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Speaker 3: and he said he had seen the show the night

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Speaker 3: before and he was just so grateful that he had

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Speaker 3: a forum where he could actually continue the conversation with

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Speaker 3: younger the younger generation, because they don't. He said, there's

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Speaker 3: no opportunity for this intergenerational discussion on topics that are

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Speaker 3: affecting our communities in such a big.

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Speaker 2: Way, and some of those smaller w way communities are

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Speaker 2: you know where you would really get the full trilogy.

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Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan of anything that sort of

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Speaker 2: sparks debate among people in discussion, rather, I should say,

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Speaker 2: than debate. I'm so sorry that we don't have more

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Speaker 2: time to talk about this because it's so important, but

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Speaker 2: it is at the Actors Hub Studios in East Perth.

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Speaker 2: I can only suggest that people get long this Saturday

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Speaker 2: and next Saturday. Tickets are through Tribe booking dot com.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in, guys, for having us, Guys,