Date/Time
Date(s) - 31 Mar 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location
Canberra Theatre Centre Playhouse

BY DAVID GREIG & GORDON MCINTYRE

AUSTRALIAN TOUR PRODUCED BY MERRIGONG THEATRE CO. AND RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS

Two people walk into a bar…

It’s a midsummer’s weekend in Edinburgh. It’s raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a bar waiting for something to turn up.

He’s a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city’s underworld and she’s a high powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people’s husbands. She’s out of his league and he’s not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever.

Which is why they do.

Midsummer {a play with songs} is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery.

Direct from Edinburgh’s acclaimed Traverse Theatre Company, and featuring the award winning overseas cast, Midsummer {a play with songs} is by one of the UK’s leading playwrights, David Greig and top Scottish singer/songwriter, Gordon McIntyre. Originally premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this quirky, charming, rom-com with songs has become a phenomenon, playing to rapturous sold-out crowds around the world, from London to Washington to Vancouver, and now Australia.