THE CITY

BY MARTIN CRIMP
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RED STITCH ACTORS THEATRE

 

MELBOURNE PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 2010

 

"inspiring and unconventional...brilliantly directed and performed" LIZA DEZFOULI - AUSTRALIAN STAGE ONLINE

 

Clair wants to be kissed – but not now – and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children – but the garden’s empty, and the key to the playroom’s disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here?

 

Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.

 

directed by Adena Jacobs

set & costume: Dayna Morrissey
lighting desing: Danny Pettingill
sound design: Jared Lewis
stage manager: Colleen Jeffery
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​performed by Fiona Macleod, Dion Mills, Meredith Penman, Fantine Banulski/Georgie Hawkins

 

"The City might be the best production I've seen at Red Stitch" ALISON CROGGON - THEATRE NOTES

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"Director Adena Jacobs constructs a Gordian knot of existential isolation and incidental connection...The characters possess an unbearable intimacy with us, and a disturbing distance from each other." CAMERON WOODHEAD - THE AGE

 

Nominated for 3 Green Room Awards:

Best Production (Companies)

Best Set Design 

Best Female Performer (Fiona Macleod)