The Store
Room Presents a little death production
Melbourne Premiere
From
playwright Tommy Murphy (Holding the Man) and director Ben Packer (Mercury Fur), comes a surprising and tender play
about accepting the kindness of strangers.
‘little
death productions’ is excited to present the Melbourne premiere of one
of the best new Australian plays of recent years, Strangers in Between. This work by the rising star Sydney
playwright Tommy Murphy forms part of the Store Room Theatre’s 2009
season.
There’s a climate of fear in friendly
Goulburn and Shane is forced from his family. And so he flees,
naturally, to Kings Cross. Shane is unsure of his sexuality, more
unsure of how to find intimacy and completely thrown by having to choose
between laundry liquid and powder.
Strangers
in Between‘s original production in 2005 in
Sydney launched playwright Tommy Murphy’s stellar rise. The Sydney
Morning Herald called the play “bitter and sweet and replete with raw
emotion … entertaining and forceful”. SX News went a step further and
claimed it to be “the best new Australian play since Michael Gow’s Away”. Strangers in Between won the NSW
Premier's Literary Award for Best Play in 2006; Tommy
Murphy’s extraordinarily successful adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s Holding the Man won the
same Award in 2007. Murphy is the youngest recipient of the award, and
the only playwright to win in successive years. Last year, the Sydney
Theatre Company presented Murphy’s Saturn’s Return as part of the Wharf2Loud season and
will open on the Sydney Theatre Company main stage this year.
‘little
death productions’ is an independent theatre company that seeks to
present work that is vital and visceral. The company presented Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley in 2007 at
Theatreworks before touring the production to Sydney as part of Griffin
Stablemates. Critic for The Australian and theatre blogger Alison
Croggon proclaimed the production as “quite
simply, brilliant theatre”.
Strangers
in Between by Tommy Murphy
Directed
by Ben Packer
Set/Costumes
by Micka Agosta
Lighting/Sound
by Ben Watts
Original lighting concept by Govin
Ruben
Photography
by Jay Matthews
Produced
by Laura Milke Garner
with
Aljin Abella, Bruce Kerr and Cameron Moore
Season:
July 23 – August 16, Preview: July 22
Tues-Sat
8pm, Sun 6pm
Adult
$29, Concession $24, Preview $19
Bookings:
www.easytix.com.au or 03 9639 0096
The Store Room
First Floor, Parkview Hotel
Corner of Scotchmer St & St
Georges Rd,
North Fitzroy
VIC
