CONSTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN HEART

"We're an exhibition when we're in public. We're an installation - we're both standing in corners like a Patricia Piccinini sculpture. Never blinking, never feeling, hair and fibreglass. We have become weird little bodies in a dull light in a quiet room."

Ross Mueller's groundbreaking Construction of the Human Heart effortlessly integrates form and content to produce an ambitious and original meditation on loss and the redemptive qualities of communication through art.

At the heart of the play is The Couple, known only as Him and Her, two playwrights dealing with unimaginable loss the only way they know how- by building a fortress of words impregnable to grief. But emotions have a way of emerging through cracks in the walls, and gradually the truth slips past their defences to uncover their very real tragedies.

Nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2007 AWGIE Award for
Play of the Year and the New York New Dramatists Award, Construction of the
Human Heart is a poignant, funny and devastating look at grief, love and loss
in our times by one of Australia’s most exciting independent playwrights.

(THE PILOT VERSION OF) SOMETHING TO DIE FOR

"At the outset, the lights go up and - the author - is found on the stage. He begins to speak."

A brilliant and defiantly idiosyncratic work, Ross Mueller's latest offering traces the fated meeting of an Australian writer with British heavyweight playwright David Hare during a residency at Royal Court Theatre in London. The Australian writer addresses the central question in Hare's notorious meditation on the Middle East crisis, Via Dolorosa - 'what would you die for?

Fiercely intelligent and propelled by a dizzying linguistic force, this staggering new work from the 2006 Wal Cherry Award Winner is muscular, lyrical, funny as all get out and ultimately moving. Smart, original theatre at its best.

2007 Green Room nomination - Best Play.

		ABOUT ROSS MUELLER
		Ross Mueller is an Australian playwright. He is the winner of the Wal Cherry Play of the Year 2006 for The Glory, and in May 2007 his play No Man’s Island had its US premiere with a production at Here in New York City. Earlier that year The Ghost Writer premiered for Melbourne Theatre Company at the Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre. In 2006 he was short-listed for the New York New Dramatists Award for Construction of the Human Heart. In 2002 he was the Australian playwright at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London. Ross has been commissioned by Playbox, Melbourne Theatre Company, Hothouse and ABC Radio National, and is an affiliate of the Melbourne Theatre Company and a founding member of Melbourne Dramatists. Several of his plays have been short listed for the Patrick White and Wal Cherry Awards. His play Pinter’s Explanation premiered in New York City in September 2007 as part of the Australia Project, and in October, 2007 (The Pilot Version of) Something to Die For premiered at Store Room Theatre Workshop in Melbourne.