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Details
- Playwright
- Donna Abela
- Director
- Anna Messariti
Address19 Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Point, Sydney
The Rood Screen
by Donna Abela
A joyously surreal quest for bliss in bent space
TheodoraÂ’s hung around nuns, been transported by Bach, wept at the beauty of the Sufis, and underlined everything in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She also loves Celeste: their life together is abundant, bliss-ridden, meant-to-be, made in Heaven... or is it? How can she find a home for her spiritual instincts when religions condemn the very love of her life?
Pushing passed the pontiffs of dogma, Theodora sets out to reconcile her two sources of joy. While entrusted with the body of a fractal-loving priest, she sings with evolved fish who live in fruitcakes; stops Mother Church passing pethidine to a man who is pregnant with possibility; takes the helm of MagellanÂ’s ship and circumnavigates the ever-expanding universe; and dives off the edge of chaos to discover the beginnings of a millennial pendulum swing towards conscience and radical compassion.
ItÂ’s Monty Python and The Science Show meets existential angst!
A genre-crossing adventure through a chaotically absurd landscape.
The Rood Screen received an Honourable Mention in the 2004 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest USA and was a top five finalist in the 2002 Newham Lesbian and Gay Writing Out Awards UK.
Donna Abela co-founded Powerhouse Youth Theatre in 1987. Since then her many award-winning and nominated plays have included
Highest Mountain, Fastest River – 1992 Human Rights Commission Award for Drama.
Tales From the Arabian Nights - Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image; shortlisted 2005 NSW PremierÂ’s Literary Awards, and 2005 ChildrenÂ’s Theatre AWGIE Award.
The Daphne Massacre - Parramatta Riverside Theatre; shortlisted STC Patrick White 2000 Play Award.
Featuring Zoe Ellerton-Ashley, Virginia Gay, Amelia Kerr, Jeremy Youett, Ona Nurkkala, Christina O'Neill, Karl Velasco, Rebecca Verrier and Johann Walraven.
Directed by Anna Messariti
Costume and set design by Bridget Dolan and Halcyon MacLeod
Lighting design by Tony Youlden
Sound and music by Oonagh Sherrard
Produced by Donna Abela, Michael Bates, Sarah Corbett and Anna Messariti
Season Details:
Preview: 7pm Wednesday 1 February 2006
Opens: 7pm Thursday 2 February 2006
Plays: Friday 3 to Saturday 25 February 2006
7pm Tuesday - Saturday, 5pm Sunday.
Tickets: $28 full; $22 concession; $18 VIP Card holders
Venue: Darlinghurst Theatre Company,19 Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Point.
Bookings: (02) 8356 9987 or www.darlinghursttheatre.com
by Donna Abela
A joyously surreal quest for bliss in bent space
TheodoraÂ’s hung around nuns, been transported by Bach, wept at the beauty of the Sufis, and underlined everything in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She also loves Celeste: their life together is abundant, bliss-ridden, meant-to-be, made in Heaven... or is it? How can she find a home for her spiritual instincts when religions condemn the very love of her life?
Pushing passed the pontiffs of dogma, Theodora sets out to reconcile her two sources of joy. While entrusted with the body of a fractal-loving priest, she sings with evolved fish who live in fruitcakes; stops Mother Church passing pethidine to a man who is pregnant with possibility; takes the helm of MagellanÂ’s ship and circumnavigates the ever-expanding universe; and dives off the edge of chaos to discover the beginnings of a millennial pendulum swing towards conscience and radical compassion.
ItÂ’s Monty Python and The Science Show meets existential angst!
A genre-crossing adventure through a chaotically absurd landscape.
The Rood Screen received an Honourable Mention in the 2004 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest USA and was a top five finalist in the 2002 Newham Lesbian and Gay Writing Out Awards UK.
Donna Abela co-founded Powerhouse Youth Theatre in 1987. Since then her many award-winning and nominated plays have included
Highest Mountain, Fastest River – 1992 Human Rights Commission Award for Drama.
Tales From the Arabian Nights - Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image; shortlisted 2005 NSW PremierÂ’s Literary Awards, and 2005 ChildrenÂ’s Theatre AWGIE Award.
The Daphne Massacre - Parramatta Riverside Theatre; shortlisted STC Patrick White 2000 Play Award.
Featuring Zoe Ellerton-Ashley, Virginia Gay, Amelia Kerr, Jeremy Youett, Ona Nurkkala, Christina O'Neill, Karl Velasco, Rebecca Verrier and Johann Walraven.
Directed by Anna Messariti
Costume and set design by Bridget Dolan and Halcyon MacLeod
Lighting design by Tony Youlden
Sound and music by Oonagh Sherrard
Produced by Donna Abela, Michael Bates, Sarah Corbett and Anna Messariti
Season Details:
Preview: 7pm Wednesday 1 February 2006
Opens: 7pm Thursday 2 February 2006
Plays: Friday 3 to Saturday 25 February 2006
7pm Tuesday - Saturday, 5pm Sunday.
Tickets: $28 full; $22 concession; $18 VIP Card holders
Venue: Darlinghurst Theatre Company,19 Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Point.
Bookings: (02) 8356 9987 or www.darlinghursttheatre.com
Bookings
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