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Red Stitch is proud to present the World Premiere of Red Sky Morning: an innovative new Australian work, developed by the company over the past 12 months with one of the most exciting young writers in the country, Tom Holloway on Friday August 29.
Red Sky Morning is a lyrical exploration of dislocation and the need to connect told through the experience of a father, a mother and their teenage daughter in the course of one life-changing day. Tom Holloway’s surprising, seriously inventive new play is a funny, moving and sometimes shocking ride through the interiors of the mind. The play confronts head on the impact of depression and isolation in regional Australia.
Red Sky Morning’s form is as challenging as its content. The play continues Holloway’s trademark combination of linguistic experimentation and a robust Australian vernacular. An extended development process has enabled the writer to push the envelope of theatrical communication – to experiment with a musical, overlapping form ideally suited to our noise filled, attention pulling world. Red Stitch is grateful for the assistance of the R.E. Ross Trust, the Australia Council and Arts Victoria in the development of this new work. While Red Stitch was disappointed to be unsuccessful in receiving funding to actually stage this new Australian work, the company felt it to be of such an exceptionally high standard, they opted to stage it anyway.
Red Sky Morning is the first fully fledged production developed through the ‘Red Stitch Writers’ programme. Coordinated by dramaturge, Sam Strong, Red Stitch Writers is an initiative set up by the company to promote local writers and to help develop new original works for Red Stitch seasons. Red Stitch Writers provides a 12 month playwright residency and assists the development of a specific work through regular meetings with the dramaturge and workshops with ensemble members.
Tom Holloway‘s play Don't Say the Words has just finished a critically acclaimed season at Griffin Theatre, Sydney and the Tasmanian Theatre Company, Hobart. Another of his plays, Beyond the Neck was one of ten plays chosen for The Royal Court Theatre's International Festival of Young Playwrights in London in 2007. After a sell-out premiere season in Tasmania last year, the play is currently nominated for an Australian Writer's Guild AWGIE award for Best New Play.
Having worked closely with Sam Strong over many months in his capacity as dramaturge and literary consultant, Red Stitch is thrilled to have him direct with the company for the first time. Red Sky Morning features an all ensemble cast who have been involved in the development process, David Whiteley, Erin Dewarand Sarah Sutherland.
“An astonishing work” - Judges report on the play for R.E. Ross Trust
“Holloway’s tautly crafted work offers a theatre of renewal for and of our time.” – Real Time (Beyond the Neck)
"Holloway perfectly captures the rhythmic musicality of human utterance" - The Australian (Don't Say the Words)
"Holloway's... writing is a masterclass in verbal virtuosity that
never once loses its grip on either sense or emotion...5 stars” - Time Out, Sydney (Don't Say the Words)
“Tom is an authentic, original and exciting new playwright” - Leo Butler, Royal Court, London
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Red Sky Morning
by Tom Holloway
Where: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East (opp Astor)
When: Fri August 29 – Sat September 27. Wed – Sat 8pm, Sun 6.30pm
$18 previews Wed 27 and Thurs 28 August
Running Time: 70 mins
Bookings: www.redstitch.net (discounted tix) or on 03 9533 8083 @ $30/20
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