Performance Dates
10 Oct 2009 – 24 Oct 2009October 2009
10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24 October
Details
- Playwright
- Adaptation of "The Voysey Inheritance" by Harley Granville Barker
- Director
- Roz Riley
The Ponzi Inheritance
Based around “The Voysey Inheritance” by Harley Granville Barker
The Ponzi Inheritance based around Harley Granville-Barker’s play, The Voysey Inheritance, examines fraud, family and fickle friends from the other side of the fence. Directed by Roz Riley, The Ponzi Inheritance will play at The Star of the Sea Theatre, Manly from Saturday October 10.
Have we changed so much in 100 years? Fraud, loyalty, love, ladders, whippings and chest!
The past and the present contest the truth for absolution, sparring in overalls, top hats and corsets.
This adaptation, performed by Factory Space Theatre, follows he plight of Edward Voysey, heir to a fraudulent fortune.Edward will battle at every step with the curse of his father’s legacy and the selfishness of his family as he struggles to do what he believes is the right thing.
Aftershocks ripple through the Voysey family, loyalties and ideals are tested, loves won and lost, blackmail and extortion threatened, and the omnipresent threat of exposure and ruin looms over them all.
“Your mum and dad they set you up, they may not mean to, but they do. They leave you all the guilts they had, and add some extra just for you.”
How like our parents are we? Can we ever step out of their shadow, or must we resign ourselves to being captives of our upbringing? With the obligatory smattering of money, love and death this contemporary adaptation of Harley Granville Barker’s hundred-year old classic by Factory Space Theatre confronts these questions head-on.Starring: Alison Albany, Ben Bonar, Bec Bignall, Alison Daniels, Viv Delgado, Lyndall Irons, Mitch McDermott and Sam Rushton.
Venue
The Star of the Sea Theatre, corner Collingwood and lluka Avenue, Manly
Dates
Saturday October 10 at 7.30pm, Sunday October 11 at 3pm, Thursday October 15 at 7.30pm, Friday October 16 at
7.30pm, Saturday October 17 at 7.30pm, Sunday October 18 at 3pm, Thursday October 22 at 7.30pm, Friday October
23 at 7.30pm, Saturday October 24 at 7.30pm.
Bookings
Price: $30/$25 concession
Venue: The Star of the Sea Theatre, corner Collingwood Street & Illuka Avenue, Manly
Box Office & Enquiries: 02 94391906
Bookings
This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.