Production -Available for touring

Make Me Cry
Written and directed by Ben Speth

Fist preformed July 26-29, 2007 at fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne Australia.

Performed by HaiHa Le, Todd MacDonald, Margaret Mills, Mark Minchinton

Written and Directed by Ben Speth (Artistic Associate)

"Ben Speth’s experiment is a challenging and necessary work which I enjoyed enormously. Make Me Cry is a vital and fascinating exploration of the theatrical form." Australian Stage Reviewer Simon Piening

In the Spring/Summer of 2005 'The Lady in the Boot Case' plays itself out in the pages of Australia's newspapers: Maria Korp, mother of two, is found near death in the boot of her car. Joe Korp, Maria's estranged husband and Tania Herman, Joe's girlfriend, are accused of assault and attempted murder. By year's end Maria's life support is discontinued, Joe hangs himself in his garage on the evening of her interment and Tania gets 9 years for her role in the crime.

Make Me Cry imagines story from brutal fact; re-jigs drama; investigates performance, language, form; is a fact masquerading as a fiction.