Square Peg traces the landscape of one mans’ childhood and youth as a rich tapestry of beautifully wrought objects and less beautifully wrought relationships.
Square Peg is a new play written and performed by Simeon Morris about mid- life crisis as an awakening, a call to arms to live more fully, in the time we have at our disposal.
Trauma, abuse, loneliness and craftsmanship have crystallised into a constellation of a seemingly futile yearning for love and belonging, a desperate heart rent through with crushing despair, and a soul deep craving to be seen, cherished and held in the bosom of a family, replete with intimacy and compassion.
As his failure to find peace becomes impossible to ignore, our protaganist is forced to turn inwards to finally meet himself, seeking out solace in the worlds of poetry and birds; the humble Black Bird, Hardy’s Darkling Thrush, may have the answer…
Writer and Performer Simeon Morris said: “Essentially, Square Peg is an OUROBOROS, a snake eating its tail. It charts the story of my life, really, since coming out of a fairly traumatising childhood, how I set about trying to get love and attention through making beautiful objects and then trying to get people to love me through those objects. And that was through fashion, making dresses, dressing up women; finding beautiful women to make beautiful clothes for in the hope that I would get the love and attention I needed. Square Peg is about creative endeavour, about expressing oneself, about finding perhaps a sensitive spot inside you, that’s maybe what the world needs, that it doesn’t really need your self-important opinions and grandiose attitudes, your logical processes and you trying to fix everything all the time.”
