Like all good
plays ‘about’ an issue, Thomas de Angelis’ Unfinished
Works is simultaneously about and not about art. While it also,
certainly, covers being an artist, making art, and delves into issues of
artistic integrity, honesty, and the entire history of Western art’s habit of
celebrating Big Name Artists over the content or substance of their work, Unfinished Works is also a story about
parents and children, about growing up and leaving the nest, about friendship,
relationships, and about people connecting with each other.
Produced by Bontom
and playing in the Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre, Unfinished Works is about an artist, Frank Ralco, who has been
commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art and has two weeks remaining in
which to complete the piece. After a meeting with a builder-cum-property
developer, and still unable to paint, Ralco forms a friendship with Isabel, an aspiring
artist, and the two hatch a plan to test the power of their art, and change the
course of their lives.
