![]() ![]() Matters are no easier for Ray, a personality without a past, slowly destroyed by self-awareness.Īll this is consummately staged by Matthew Lutton in a co-production with Melbourne’s Malthouse theatre, bringing a human scale to the otherworldly seascapes and arid spaceship interiors created by designer Hyemi Shin and the technical team. Pulled in two directions – by scientific rigour and human passion – Kris sees an escape from loneliness in the very thing that will make her more isolated. He is as attractive and as inscrutable as the planet itself. Polly Frame, excellent as psychologist Kris, is emotionally torn when Keegan Joyce appears as long-lost boyfriend Ray. The more real these manifestations become, the greater the existential crisis. First, it sends gifts of Earth-like objects, and eventually emissaries in human form. ![]() In Greig’s version, Solaris learns to talk to its visitors step by step, manifesting itself in increasingly sophisticated ways. It’s partly also to home in on the themes of loneliness, communication and unknowability. Otherworldly … Hugo Weaving as Dr Gibarian and Keegan Joyce as Ray in Solaris Photograph: Pia Johnson ![]()
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