Date/Time
Date(s) - 5 Apr 2017
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
State Theatre Centre Of WA
GoTheatrical! app captioned performance on Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 7.30pm
Booking details: http://www.bsstc.com.au/season-2017/once-in-royal-davids-city/
Please notify the Box Office staff at the time of booking that you will be accessing the captioning service. Please remember to download the GoTheatrical! app to your mobile or tablet device before the performance. Devices are available to borrow from the venue.
Faced with loss, do we rage against the universe, search for connection or hope for an epiphany?
On the beaches of New South Wales, Brecht-obsessed theatre director Will has planned to share a restful, halcyon Christmas with his recently widowed mother. But then she unexpectedly falls seriously ill. During a bedside vigil, Will is forced to piece together the splintered shards of his own life. Angry and bewildered, he questions his role as an artist, a son and his place in a world where his dreams and ambitions appear forsaken.
This heartfelt work by Australian playwright Michael Gow is directed by Queensland Theatre’s new Artistic Director Sam Strong, marking our next exciting collaboration with this company. Intimate and sweeping, balancing warmth with wrath, Once In Royal David’s City is a life-af?rming story about family, loss, purpose, politics and the endless possibilities of art.
WA PREMIERE
Co-production with Queensland Theatre
Cast
- Adam Booth
- Penny Everingham
- Emma Jackson
- Jason Klarwein
- Toni Scanlan
- Adam Sollis
- Kaye Stevenson
- Steve Turner
Directed by Sam Strong
- Sound Designer/Composer
- Ash Gibson Greig
- Set & Costume Designer
- Stephen Curtis
- Lighting Designer
- Matt Scott