Sex, death, life and bodies… Katie Pollock’s outrageously black comedy, People Inside Me, comes to Flight Path Theatre this August.
Lauren works at a crematorium. She hates death, but at least the dead can’t let you down. With a history of failed relationships and pregnancies, her biological clock is ticking hard and she finds herself at the bar night after night looking for someone to fuck.
At work Lauren discovers boxes of ashes left on the shelf – children and babies who have not been claimed by their families. The memories and unlived lives of those departed souls start to invade her consciousness until something must be done. She decides to return the ashes to their families, forcing her to confront her greatest fears.
Winner of the Rodney Seaborn Award, longlisted for the Patrick White Award and Theatre 503’s International Playwriting Award, and shortlisted for the Silver Gull, People Inside Me is an outrageously black comic look at grief and love and the ways we push the darkness away.
Director: Anthony Skuse | Featuring: Kate Bookallil, Peter Eyers, Charlotte Salusinszky and Reuben Solomon | Lighting Designer: Topaz Marlay-Cole | Composer: Caleb Jacobs | Stage Manager: Daniel Wearden | AD and Costume: Charlotte Savva | Set Build: James Smithers | Producer: Joy Minter | Associate Producer: Gavin Roach | Writer: Katie Pollock
People Inside Me
Flight Path Theatre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville
Season: 6 – 15 August 2026 (preview 5 August)
Information and Bookings: www.flightpaththeatre.org
Image: Kate Bookallil stars in People Inside Me – photo by Philip Le Masurier