La Chat Noir: A (B)romance in One ActI Love You, Bro is a creepy little black comedy that is becoming justifiably famous since its debut at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe and subsequent season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Set in England the eighty minute solo act is told by Johnny (Ash Flanders) who recounts how, as a lonely fourteen year-old, he began a chat-room relationship that nearly cost him his life. Bored and frustrated Johnny spends his nights at his computer talking to equally bored and frustrated strangers until he meets by chance another boy in his town who ...
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Delta SkelterTo celebrate the 65th birthday and negative cancer test of 'Big Daddy' Pollitt (Chris Haywood), the richest man on the Mississippi Delta, his sons Gooper (Grant Piro) and Brick (Martin Henderson) gather at the family home with their wives Mae (Rebekah Stone) and Margaret (Essie Davis) for the party. Mae is pregnant with their sixth child while Brick and Maggie are childless and their marriage is on the rocks. Brick is an alcoholic, his leg in plaster from a drunken prank the night before, and indifferent to his beautiful wife. Despite that Maggie is crazy for love of him. ...
A chi più debb’io mai l’intensa vogliaSfogar con pianti o con parole mester,Se d ital sorte ‘l ciel, che l’ame veste,Tard’o per tempo alcun mai non ne spoglia?[To what purpose do I express my intense desirewith tears and sorrowful words when heaven, which clothes my soul, neither sooner or later relieves me of it?]Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Holding the Man is a double tribute. Timothy Conigrave's tribute to the man he loved for more than half of his short life and a tribute by the Griffin Theatre Company to Conigrave himself who was an early member of the company working with ...
Sloane Square!In this new production, the first professional staging in years, poor old Joe Orton gets a battering almost as bad as the one his psycho boyfriend gave him back in 1967. Entertaining Mr Sloane was Orton's first staged play and one of the greatest English sex comedies since the Restoration. In Orton’s words “it’s about a young man who wants a room and comes into this house. He’s met the woman of the house in a public library and she shows him around the house. Within about five minutes she attempts to seduce him. A bit later on, she ...
