Living in a multicultural Australian society, the individuals affiliated have adopted the ability to witness its diverse nature through the vast experiences presented by the singular members. These broad affairs explore sections that depict Australia as vibrant but contrasting to this notion, would be the underlying incidences that exhibit the implementation of fear built within society. This can be shown through the texts Ruby
Moon by Matt Cameron and Stolen written by Jane Harrison. A medium commonly visited throughout both plays is the idea of children missing and the devastating impacts on mediate family members, media and mankindʼs ever changing normalities. Australian drama and theatre have staged these conceptions using fractured fairytales, detective stories entwined with Vaudeville, symbolism as well as performance styles varying from episodic, non ʻstarʼ piece and personal experiences.
A continuos epidemic which remains existent within Australian civilization is the peculiar disappearance of children. Ruby Moon exemplifies this predicament through its fractured fairytale writing style which exploits morality entangled with iniquity that has begun overruling a modernized community. The extended metaphor which foreshadows this text is little red riding hood. Although in the childlike adaption it results a happier ending, itʼs the ambivalence which reassures the unhappier endings depicting the harsh reality of the missing child cases found in Australian society.
A missing child is a universal tragedy with a primal impact therefore the hidden truth to ruby moon also extends away from the illusion of little red riding hood. News features such as the Beaumont children and missing child Eloise Worledge are two of the influential
Australian headlines that Ruby Moon came about to be. The loss of children are
catastrophic