Masterfully performed by Leah Purcell, Don't Take Your Love to Town is a warm and moving story of one woman's determination to carry on and, ultimately triumph against the odds.
The Aussie adaptation does the work's origins proud: as commedia all'improviso, the actors not only hone certain 'masks', or types, but ad lib superbly when the odd mishap occurs.
The audience interaction and her command over our every laugh, our every sigh, our every adoring glance and glimpse at her unmanageable bosom and our every delight in her sensational vocals have begun.
Clockfire has preserved the quintessentially Kafkaesque nature of the idea, inasmuch as the unseen man is the very epitome of marginalisation; outsider; other.
Driving down the mainstreet, where the Festival weaves in and out of multi-venues, from the Courthouse Hotel, Drill Hall, Mullumbimby 'Bowlo', The Civic Hall, the Ex Services Club and even the Mullumbimby High School Auditorium, the vibe is present from the go-get.