FACTORY SPACE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN @ STAR OF THE SEA MANLY

 

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The Factory Space Theatre Company’s new production at their home venue in Manly, the Star of The Sea theatre, is EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN by Edward Albee.

EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN (1967) is Albee’s adaptation  of Giles Cooper’s play (1962) and premiered on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on 16 November 1967.

Roz Riley’s production  featured a huge, well chosen cast and was carefully directed by Factory Space’s Artistic Director.This American satire about sex, money, and suburban conformity is entirely set in the sun-room of Richard and Jenny’s house, with their beautiful garden paradise featured at the front of the stage and around the audience.

The couple have moved out to the suburbs in search of the good life, the very expensive house in the suburbs, the country tennis club and of course private school education for their son. The couple, however, have constant money problems that prevent them from getting involved in the wasteful spending that will mean they can  keep up with their neighbours.

Jenny is visited by an upper-class British madam, called Mrs. Toothe, who runs a high class brothel staffed by suburban wives, who leads her into temptation…. Jenny wants to buy a greenhouse, and purchase all the many other luxuries of suburban living, within a society that pretends virtue but actually practices, behind closed doors, every vice to make themselves richer….

Albee’s work is a classic, darkly humorous tale with its scathing examination of suburban debauchery, and the manners of polite society. Discover the hypocrisies of suburbia, as both Jenny and Richard find out exactly what they are prepared to do, to keep all their secrets buried, and to maintain the standard of living to which they have become accustomed.

You can catch EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN this coming weekend at the Star Of The Sea Theatre. The show is playing Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm and there is a matinee on Sunday at 3pm.

Running time 2 hours 15mins.

The Star of the Sea Theatre is located at Stella Maris College, corner of Iluka and Collingwood Streets, Manly.

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