Em 4 Jay (For)

Melbourne iconoclast, Alkinos Tsilimidos, teams up again with renowned playwright Daniel Keene (Tom White MIFF 2004) to create this unflinchingly confronting, romantic tragedy.

Together, young local actors Laura Gordon and Nick Barkla are revelatory as the doomed lovers of the tale, Emma and Jay, who descend into a criminal rampage to support their heroin habits. Despite being madly inlove, ultimately, nothing can save them from themselves. In keeping with Tsilimidos’ social realist leanings and disinterest in safe, middle-class stories, Em 4 Jay isn’t afraid to bury its audience in the characters’ unsympathetic (and pathetic) world… and it keeps you in a stranglehold until the very last frame.