Disturbing, irreverent (and funny) 

Must finish June 13 to go to Melbourne's La Mama Theatre

In a world where mental health issues are reaching epidemic proportions, Tom the loneliest is a mirror to our time , reflecting wisdoms, observations, stories and habitual coping mechanismes of society's 'crazies'
Two men (both named Tom) inhabit a familiar yet strange world. They revisit painful memories. They explore moments between boredom and madness. They speak in languages and move in gestures uniquely their own. They're never quite sure if something just said is in the room or in their head.
A dark comedy, "Tom the loneliest" confronts isolation, depression, medication, psychosis, domestic violence, addiction and the disempowerment of modern masculinity with a disturbing irreverence that is a constant in this world of the Toms.  The result is funny, enlightening, unnerving.

Please note: There will be special signed performances on Wed June 10 and Sat June 13

Snippets from Reviews:-

       "A dense and intimate atmosphere is established as Crotti and Duncan...rattle the cages of their minds...both performances are special - Crotti so fluent and elegant on the ear, Luke sometimes almost robotic in his exactitude.......Paulo Castro (Director) .....giving it a sense of flourishing high art,. (Samela Harris - The Advertiser)
       "There are times when theatre's power to transfix and transform us hits us between the eyes.......there are these moments of insight, humour and sadness in " Tom the Loneliest". Duncan Luke and Julian Crotti play the Toms and their performances are sharp, funny and always entertaining........an entirely successful production which achieves everything it sets out to do.  (John Wells - Adelaide Theatre Guide)
        "There's a car crach quality about this show that makes it watchable - enter at your own risk!" - (Matt Byrne - Sunday Mail)
        "Tom the loneliest is a gem on many levels...Several times the opening night audience reacted with appreciative gasps; a high tribute indeed.(Myk Mykyta - Radio Adelaide)

Audience members- "disturbingly intimate", "life-affirming and scary"
Independent Weekly - "bleak and cruelly real with laugh-out-loud moments"

realtime 88 Director Paulo Castro has successfully developed Tom the loneliest into an engaging full-length work. It has a materialist, found-object aesthetic. It is lit from the floor with bedroom lamps. And its dramatic arc is charted by Castro and the actors with clarity and care. Material encounters with found objects generate ironies of the inevitable which are both moving and profound. (Jonathan Bollen)

Tom the loneliest is an essential and experimental new Australian work - challenging notions of time and memory, exploring limits and definitions of sanity, questioning received theatrical conventions.
It is presented in association with Loose Canon Art Services and Enjoyo-Meals

For more information go to www.nostringsattached.org.au
For interviews and images please contact Artistic Director PJ Rose on 8363 5970 or 0439 811 200 or pj@nostringsattached.org.au