The cast of Going Down Photo by Brett Boardman This is the story of a writer, a woman, who has writer’s block and feels under pressure to write the next thing. She creates situations in her life to write about and ends up developing the show we’re watching. The main character is a fictionalised version of the playwright and the play contains a crazy sex scene, fantasy sequences where the writer loses her mind and an important cameo by a member of the large cat family. If you think all of these elements would add up to create a brilliant show, you’d be right. Except that brilliant show isn’t Michele Lee’s Going Down , it’s Lally Katz’s Atlantis . The element that is unique to Lee’s show is her background and the key struggle she has is with the expectation that she must delve into her heritage to write her next work or any work at all. Going Down is a reaction to Michele Lee’s experience with her book, Banana Girl , which received criticism from inside and out
Playwright, Critic, Screenwriter.