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SEASON TWO 2009
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In a Dark,
Dark House
by Neil LaBute
(The Shape of Things)
JULY 22 - AUGUST 22 
Terry is visiting his estranged younger brother Drew in the grounds of a psychiatric institution. Drew, a lawyer turned wealthy businessman, wants Terry to confirm a watershed event from their adolescence which may help make sense of his recent fall from grace. But information has a price. To this tense tale of fraught fraternal relationships, where male violence and vulnerability co-exist and where any emotion can be seen as weakness, LaBute brings his own distinctive perspective.
“ ‘House’ is about adolescence…how it can be warped, stolen, frozen and willfully extended…LaBute’s most sophisticated use of language thus far.” - New York Times
DIRECTED BY WAYNE PEARN (The Real Thring) |
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The Rites
of Evil
by Travis Cotton
SEPTEMBER 2 - 26
Xavier and Easter are chance acquaintances on the nether side of life, troubled and unstable misfits for whom elaborate conspiracy theories offer the only haven of certainty in a world that offers them so little. When Xavier unwittingly tries to help his new friend he sets in motion a course of action that threatens catastrophe for them both. Travis Cotton’s endearing, surreal and strangely funny portrait of paranoia, isolation and friendship against the odds shows how delusion becomes infectious in the land of the lost.
In association with the Melbourne Fringe Festival
DIRECTED BY ALEX MENGLET (Yellow Moon)
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Faces in
the Crowd
by Leo Butler
OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 7
When Dave moved out he left behind his family, wife Joanne and mounting financial woes for the life he always wanted. 10 years on Joanne wants payback with interest and Dave seems ready to make amends with an extraordinary deal. Faces in the Crowd offers a raw and devastating account of a couple forced to take an inventory of their actions, accounts owing, and the bonds that define them.
“A bare-knuckle marital slugfest that's a Strindberg or an Albee for the credit-crunch generation.” – British Theatre Guide
DIRECTED BY SAM STRONG (Red Sky Morning) |
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On Ego
by Mick Gordon and Paul Broks
NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 19
If offered the chance of a new life after death, would you choose to share another existence with your partner or would you part at the end of this one and never meet again? On Ego – the intriguing first venture of Mick Gordon’s ‘On Theatre’ company, co-written with the neuropsychologist Paul Broks, takes us on a journey into the notion of identity, memory, neurological delusion and the fragile nature of love.
“A philosophically stretching and heart-twistingly ambivalent piece.” – The Independent
“Conscious experience is not caused by the behaviour of neurons, it is the behaviour of neurons.” – Francis Crick
DIRECTED BY DANIEL FREDERIKSEN
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This project has been assisted by the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Principal Benefactors: The Cybec Foundation, The JT Reid Trust, The Portland House Foundation.
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