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Written by Rosie Whitehead
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 Reasonable Doubt is a play about the shifting nature of truth written by a lawyer, perhaps the best qualified professional to deal with such a theme. Mitch and Anna meet up in a penthouse hotel suite overlooking the Sydney Opera House and through dialogue, gradually reveal the complex net of deception and desire that binds the two of them. They had both been members of a jury for a murder trial and have not been able to fully move on from the experience. Their verdicts were, and still are, opposing yet they are irresistibly attracted to each other’s conviction. The play circles round and round trying to edge its way closer to the truth, both of the murder and their feelings for each other. The acting is passionate and both characters well established and developed but the script has some weak moments. One conversation where the two characters say “I touch your hair”, “you kiss my neck” while they do so, seems a tad contrived. Despite this, Anna’s wide-eyed infatuation for Mitch and Mitch’s desperately moving release of tension and holding back of pain is gripping to watch.
- Reasonable Doubt
- Assembly @ George Street
- 12th - 25th August
- 10:45
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