Moth

Synopsis

Sebastian is "that kid" at high school. He's weird. He smells. He's obsessed with comics, and talks to himself. But after a catastrophic fallout with his only friend, Claryssa, he wakes up with a moth in a jar by his bed, and a calling to save the souls of all humanity. And so begins the Passion of Sebastian: a journey into a terrifying and starless night. By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a firework of a play. Channelling Donnie Darko, Disco Pigs and Copenhagen, it is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.

Our Review:

Paul Couch - 4 May 2013

It’s a dangerous place, school, and the wisest of us create armour to bring us safely through what can be one of the most trying times in our lives. We become bullies or intellectuals, teachers’ pets or the classroom rogue. But what if none of these options are open to us?

For Claryssa and Sebastian, the protagonists in Declan Greene’s award-winning 2010 work Moth, their schooldays aren’t so much ‘the best years of their lives’ as a study in ritual humiliation, social exclusion and, eventually, emotional collapse.

Sebastian (Jordan Mifsud) is obsessed with death and sci-fi, while Emo Claryssa wears her angry, pubescent angst like a burka. The two have an unlikely friendship that often seems based on mutual disdain, their only common ground being that they’re both outcasts from their peer group. Their constant sniping is the cement that holds them together until a pivotal moment changes the rules for good.

When Sebastian is savagely beaten by ...

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