Frantic Assembly use their signature physical style on an unlikely genre, the family
melodrama, for Australian playwright Andrew Bovell's
Things I Know to be
True. The title refers to a mental list kept by Rosie Price (Kirsty Oswald,) a
young woman on her gap year in Europe, who gets fucked in more ways than one by a
handsome Italian and, heartbroken, makes an early return to suburban Adelaide and
her parents Fran (Imogen Stubbs) and Bob (Ewan Stewart.) The baby of the family,
Rosie's list is of comforting things about her family and how she'll always know
where she stands with them, so of course she's barely back before it all starts to
change. Eldest brother Mark (Matthew Barker) has been dumped by his long-term
girlfriend due to a crisis he's not yet shared with the others, while Ben's (Richard
Mylan) big-spending lifestyle is clearly leading to trouble.
