MAYA DRIVE - Theatre Review

WHAT: Maya Drive WHERE: La Mama HQ WHEN: July 27 - August 7 2022 WRITTEN BY: Milton DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Shaw COSTUMES BY: Jane Hyland LIGHTING & STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Chuck Martin PERFORMED BY: Stella Economou, Cassiel Garward, Emma Jo McKay, Tom Pickering, Lily Thomson, Matthew Richard Walsh, Matthew Richard Walsh, Lily Thomson, Cassiel Garward - photo by Darren Gill Maya Drive is the intriguing new play at La Mama HQ . Focusing around issues of mental health, it is a planetary swirl of family, friends, myth, and legend. This is the second show by Milton (playwright) to be performed at La Mama. Based on reviews of the previous work - Chronic - I suggest Maya Drive shows a much greater focus and control. It has the added bonus of exposing a playwright who understands words and dialogue have an art of their own - separate but inseparable from discourse and chatter. Milton has written a play in which the words are visceral and musical and harsh and pleading. Swirling around th