The Supposed to Be at Footscray Community Arts Centre

4 June 2026 in Melbourne, part of RISING festival.It's felt like a struggle to find interesting theatre of late. For the last few years, I've been a bit put off after experiencing some patronising, preaching-to-the-choir productions, and it's been hard to find things that are clearly not going to be like that. Good news though, things are improving now.The Supposed to Be is about a woman, Kavitha, who has reached middle age, lives a corporate life and gave up on her creative self decades ago. As a girl she and her mother migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, and as a young adult was pressured by her mother to abandon her dream of being an actor. Kavitha is using a service that lets you clone yourself so that your clone can live the life you dreamed of. You can surreptitiously observe your clone but you're not allowed to meet. Of course, they meet. Kaye is Kavitha's clone, an aspiring actor who makes money on the side performing on OnlyFans (or something like it). Whether she is…