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4 Jan 2002 – 2 Feb 2002January 2002
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Details
- Playwright
- Marius von Mayenberg
- Director
- Benedict Andrews
AddressWharf 2, Pier 4 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney
"I've tried everything, and the best is always simple. Take a bottle. Half fill it with petrol. Put in fuel oil or a tube of glue and dissolve it. Put in more fuel. Soak a rag in petrol and stuff it in the bottle. Set fire to the rag and throw the bottle through a window and into a building. It really works."
From the hothouse of contemporary German theatre, Marius von Mayenburg's gripping thriller sends family values to the stake.
Kurt (Matthew Whittet) can remember his birth. It was like being in a ghost train, jerking and crashing through the doors and out into the blinding light. Growing up means pain and bad breath and he's not going anywhere near it. He can build a bomb from a matchbox and he's perfecting his molotov cocktail. He wants to watch the world burn.
His sister Olga is desperate to fill out her boobtube and obliterate her virginity. Olga loves Kurt. Kurt loves Olga. They burn each other up. They want to be together forever, but never, ever want to grow up and become like Mum and Dad because grown ups are dead.
Sydney Theatre Company and Sydney Festival present the Australian Premiere of this savage black comedy powerfully staged by La Dispute director, Benedict Andrews. Fireface is part of Wharf 2 Blueprints, STCÂ’s artform development program offering adventurous, edgy theatre of excellence.
"With crackling dialogue, rapid edits and hallucinatory fantasies, von Mayenburg burns down the walls of a seemingly normal bourgeois family. Behind the smiles of family photos, he reveals a nightmarish cartoon which builds to a climax of arson, incest and murder". Benedict Andrews, director
Further info.
From the hothouse of contemporary German theatre, Marius von Mayenburg's gripping thriller sends family values to the stake.
Kurt (Matthew Whittet) can remember his birth. It was like being in a ghost train, jerking and crashing through the doors and out into the blinding light. Growing up means pain and bad breath and he's not going anywhere near it. He can build a bomb from a matchbox and he's perfecting his molotov cocktail. He wants to watch the world burn.
His sister Olga is desperate to fill out her boobtube and obliterate her virginity. Olga loves Kurt. Kurt loves Olga. They burn each other up. They want to be together forever, but never, ever want to grow up and become like Mum and Dad because grown ups are dead.
Sydney Theatre Company and Sydney Festival present the Australian Premiere of this savage black comedy powerfully staged by La Dispute director, Benedict Andrews. Fireface is part of Wharf 2 Blueprints, STCÂ’s artform development program offering adventurous, edgy theatre of excellence.
"With crackling dialogue, rapid edits and hallucinatory fantasies, von Mayenburg burns down the walls of a seemingly normal bourgeois family. Behind the smiles of family photos, he reveals a nightmarish cartoon which builds to a climax of arson, incest and murder". Benedict Andrews, director
Further info.
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