Suicide Row The Anti Suicide play for Aussie men
Channel: The Wolves Theatre Company
Date: 04/10/2017

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Is it time to tackle suicide with laughter?
The mysterious darkness that we came from and return to gave us a great tool to ease our way through the hardest of times; an ability to laugh. Unfortunately political correctness doesn't always understand this. It sees this robust talent to find humor in the grey, as something unsophisticated; an old, callous trait that only upsets modern people. But they are wrong. Instead of being decisive it can be nurturing; bonding. It can make the unbearable palatable and allows us to grin defiantly at the infinite ironies that besiege us.
Suicide is such a difficult issue that the very word can pull a grey film over the following moments. A grey film that filters out laughter. “Suicide Row” challenges this. It not only uses several words that aren't supposed to be used, such as failure, but redefines this word to mean miraculous. That is something that humor can do. 
In one of its first readings everyone was laughing. And it wasn't an irresponsible laugh but rather an involuntary chuckle, for the characters, four men, can't help but be funny. Despite the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves stuck in, taking the piss is their default state.
But beyond the understanding of political correctness, men can disarm conflicts with a single quip, they can build forts out of ongoing and often secret jokes; nurturing harbors to help each other replenish and repair, and they can build bridges to other men.
Perhaps rather than trying to curtail this, someone somewhere should leave them alone to get on with it. 
Somewhere like say, Suicide Row.
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