Huw Higginson as lawyer David Rail in Aidan Fennessy’s The House On The Lake. Production photos by Brett Boardman
Literary allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll are part of the puzzle to Aidan Fennessy’s THE HOUSE ON THE LAKE.
Lawyer, David Rail, wakes up to find himself in a hospital with forensic psychologist, Alice.
“I’m here to help”, Alice says by way of introduction, and Rail is in need of help. Rail is derailed, suffering from apparent amnesia, days erased since his last conscious recollections, mindfulness blanked in a burrow of oblivion. Continue reading The House On The Lake @ The Stables Theatre→
Ben Winspear and Kelly Paterniti in EMERALD CITY. Pic Brett Boardman
Given that the definitive play about Sydney’s shallowness was first performed in 1987, audiences may well question the contemporary relevance of David Williamson’s EMERALD CITY.
And also ask how this intimate Griffin Theatre Company production works on the small screen as it were, seeing as this play is about the lengths to which people will go to bag a harbour view made its sparkling debut oh so appropriately all those years ago at the Sydney Opera House.
EMERALD CITY pits Melbourne against Sydney and values against cash in the shape of fortysomething Colin Rogers (Mitchell Butel) and his publisher wife Kate (Lucy Bell) who make the move from Melbourne to Sydney, the city that gives good hedonism and where vicious cocktail parties are a necessary evil. Continue reading Emerald City→
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