Signs of Life
October 13th 2012 01:06
Sydney Theatre Company, Black Swan State Theatre Company and Commonwealth Bank present
Signs of Life
by Tim Winton
2 November t0 22 December.
Opening night: Wednesday 7 November
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Following the premiere of Tim Winton’s Signs of Life directed by Kate
Cherry in Western Australia earlier this year, presented by Perth’s Black
Swan State Theatre Company, STC presents the production with two new
cast members, Heather Mitchell and Aaron Pederson, at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 2 November – 22 December
Alone in her farmhouse on a dried-up riverbank, in the dead of night Georgie Jutland (Heather Mitchell) hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. Her husband, Luther Fox (George Shevtsov) has recently died, and she’s a little spooked.
A figure slowly emerges from the darkness. An Aboriginal man, Bender
(Aaron Pederson) seeks help. He says he needs petrol. His sister Mona
(Pauline Whyman) is out in the car, screaming. They’ve been sleeping in it
for days. Can Georgie help? What do these uninvited guests really want of
her? Should she trust them?
Signs of Life is a story about people with uncertain futures navigating with
only shreds of the past to guide them. It’s about the mutual incomprehension between white and black in a country where nobody is really sure they belong, and where everyone’s fate seems to have been determined by those who came before them.
A sequel of sorts to Winton’s extraordinary novel Dirt Music, the play is a
work of magical realism exploring grief, yearning, loss and redemption.
Heather Mitchell, last seen in STC’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, takes the role of Georgie, replacing previously announced Helen Morse who has had
to withdraw. Aaron Pedersen (SBS’s East West 101, Channel 7’s City
Homicide) also joins the cast in the role of Bender.
Pedersen was last seen at STC in The Club in 2003.
Cast: Heather Mitchell, Aaron Pedersen, George Shevtsov, Pauline Whyman Director: Kate Cherry; Designer: Zoe Atkinson; Lighting Designer: Jon Buswell; Composer and Sound Designer: Ben Collins.
Signs of Life
by Tim Winton
2 November t0 22 December.
Opening night: Wednesday 7 November
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Following the premiere of Tim Winton’s Signs of Life directed by Kate
Cherry in Western Australia earlier this year, presented by Perth’s Black
Swan State Theatre Company, STC presents the production with two new
cast members, Heather Mitchell and Aaron Pederson, at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 2 November – 22 December
Alone in her farmhouse on a dried-up riverbank, in the dead of night Georgie Jutland (Heather Mitchell) hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. Her husband, Luther Fox (George Shevtsov) has recently died, and she’s a little spooked.
A figure slowly emerges from the darkness. An Aboriginal man, Bender
(Aaron Pederson) seeks help. He says he needs petrol. His sister Mona
(Pauline Whyman) is out in the car, screaming. They’ve been sleeping in it
for days. Can Georgie help? What do these uninvited guests really want of
her? Should she trust them?
Signs of Life is a story about people with uncertain futures navigating with
only shreds of the past to guide them. It’s about the mutual incomprehension between white and black in a country where nobody is really sure they belong, and where everyone’s fate seems to have been determined by those who came before them.
A sequel of sorts to Winton’s extraordinary novel Dirt Music, the play is a
work of magical realism exploring grief, yearning, loss and redemption.
Heather Mitchell, last seen in STC’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, takes the role of Georgie, replacing previously announced Helen Morse who has had
to withdraw. Aaron Pedersen (SBS’s East West 101, Channel 7’s City
Homicide) also joins the cast in the role of Bender.
Pedersen was last seen at STC in The Club in 2003.
Cast: Heather Mitchell, Aaron Pedersen, George Shevtsov, Pauline Whyman Director: Kate Cherry; Designer: Zoe Atkinson; Lighting Designer: Jon Buswell; Composer and Sound Designer: Ben Collins.
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