Photo Credit: Matt Byrne Commentary - 5 out of 5 stars State Theatre Company South Australia TICKETS: https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=COMMENT26 Ash Flanders’ Commentary explores difficult questions about responsibility, complicity and the power dynamics within the arts. The play reflects a contemporary culture in which artists are often expected to be morally exemplary, while recognising that people rarely live up to such idealised versions of themselves. Its characters struggle to reconcile their self-image, their aspirations and the ways they are perceived by others, asking whether these conflicting identities can ever be brought into harmony. Commentary follows Nick Atkinson, a former filmmaker who has become a Flinders University lecturer. Twenty years after his only significant film, Low , was buried because his collaborator Hamish was caught capturing footage of a teenage girl through her bedroom window, Nick is invited to introduce a retrospecti...
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