Sincere Apologies

DateS

Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 6 September 2025

Southside Festival, Frankston Arts Centre: 14-15 May, 2025

Bondi Festival, 10-12 July, 2025

by Dan Koop, Jamie Lewis & David Williams. Based on an original concept by Roslyn Oades & David Williams


Experience a performance based on all the apologies that the world keeps offering — the famous, the obscure, the deeply personal and those that begin every second email in our inboxes.
 
Sincere Apologies reenacts and unravels how we say sorry, and how we really mean it, transforming the audience into a temporary community coming together to move through our collective regret where we might, just might, try to fix the parts of the world that are broken.
 
This unique participatory experience is awkward, funny, unexpectedly intimate and strangely moving.

“an incredibly reflective and enriching experience… Sincere Apologies is a timely reminder that apologies matter and we must make them sincerely and genuinely, whether to those we love or to whole generations of people whose lives will never be the same. It is only when we are truly sorry that we can change the future.” 

Claire Mulcahy, What’s The Show?

“The expressions of regret in Alternative Facts’ production of Sincere Apologies cover a wide spectrum of human activity, from everyday domestic mishaps to very serious world-wide problems. They reveal human nature in its most ironical, sometimes self-deluded, and occasionally humorous guise. All in all, it is an interesting, entertaining and thought-provoking compilation.”

Yvonne Hocothee, South Sydney Herald

“not just a performance, but a gently unsettling mirror held up to our collective conscience, asking each of us: What does it truly mean to be sorry? … more than anything, the experience reminded me of the profound tenderness at the heart of being human. To apologise sincerely is to acknowledge our capacity to hurt and be hurt, to recognise our shared frailty, and to reach, however imperfectly, toward forgiveness. In a world that often feels fractured by indifference or pride, Sincere Apologies was a timely and moving reminder that we owe each other more than just words. We owe each other honesty, empathy, and the courage to make amends. Only then, perhaps, can we begin to heal together.”

Olivia Langton, On The House!

  • By Dan Koop, Jamie Lewis & David Williams
  • Based on an original concept by Roslyn Oades & David Williams
  • Producer and Lighting Designer Suzie Franke
  • Sound Designer Gail Priest

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants, and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. This project was developed with support from Vitalstatistix. Sincere Apologies premiered at Frankston Arts Centre for Southside Festival.