Response to Genesis - Vidya Rajan

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Director: Emily O’Brien-Brown
Cast: Caroline Lee, Darcy Kent

Response to Genesis was staged as a darkly comic examination of ageing, ambition, and the performance of relevance. Set in the private space of an imagined late-night interview, the piece explores how fantasy and nostalgia become forms of escape, and how imagination, once a gift, can turn on you. Through fractured celebrity language and ritualised self-mythologising, the work interrogates what it means to age in a culture obsessed with youth, affirmation, and endless reinvention.