It was while browsing YouTube videos that Wollongong Workshop Theatre’s Gabi Harding found the play she had to direct.
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Ms Harding is in the driver’s seat for the theatre group’s production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a play set during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq which deals with issues like death, morality and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ms Harding said she discovered the play by chance.
“I found it on a random YouTube search,” she said.
“It was done on Broadway with Robin Williams as The Tiger. I started watching a few clips of it, then got the script and fell in love with that. Then I decided that this was something I definitely had to do – it’s a really good script.”
While the play deals with heavy topics, it is leavened with some dark humour.
“It does break it up but it also allows people to approach some of the subjects, like life after death, with a little more light,” Ms Harding said.
The play is on at the Wollongong Workshop Theatre from October 16-31.