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Riverside Theatre, Port Adelaide

2010

Co-produced by The Misery Children and Vitalstatistix

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Black Comedy

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Devised with Daisy Brown. Any number of actors can perform the work.

Ruby Bruise is magic, superheroic, invincible: she can read others' thoughts, outrun her own reflection and see through walls. A lush landscape of madness, laughter, revelation, heartache and body fluids, this new work by The Misery Children examines one woman examining herself. Sometimes, when there are no bruises to show your life's journey, you make your own. 'Written with shades of dark and light, Kruckemeyer explores into a deeper darkness than your children's stories aught, as in the dark the pains and heartaches of Ruby's life are lain out before us. But in the light, if you look around at the faces of your fellow audience members, you look into the faces of pure unadulterated joy'. Australian Stage Online

AIT Arts, South Australia

2004

Commissioned by AIT Arts

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Black Comedy

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Devised with director Daisy Brown, Sarah Johns and third year performing arts students, who performed the work. Ruby Bruised has become the inspiration for a new work being developed for 2009.

Ruby was magic. At aged 4, she discovered she spoke twelve languages. Her favourite game was to ring people in other countries, and find out what their hobbies were& At 12, Ruby found she could clone herself as she saw fit. In her first school photo, she took up eight of the twenty-one seats& Ruby Bruised could see through walls. By the time she was 16, she had seen her parents have sex over a thousand times& At 18, Ruby discovered jealousy and decided she wanted what everyone else had. For one day in June, she possessed all the world's sickness& At 22, Ruby found a magic lamp, and rubbed it. The genie that came out saw her and all her power - and he told her what he wished for... At 27, Ruby Bruised completed the life-long construction of a metal skin, borne from an early desire to protect an aching heart. On its debut wearing, her boyfriend dumped her. By the following morning, her cheeks had rusted& At 30, Ruby Bruised lost her reflection. No one noticed& At 34, Ruby Bruise told herself the truth - and all her powers were gone&& Come meet Ruby.