| Cut & Paste | Chester Street Theatre |
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In the seventies David had vision, moral courage and passion. Now he works too hard, is overweight but drives a very nice car. Rachel mourns the loss of her social conscience whilst dealing with her son’s dialysis for kidney failure. Thomas needs a transplant and is searching for spiritual answers and his pet mouse. All Nina wants is to turn 18 while Craig and Angela are planning their wedding in Blacktown. And grandma Basia, having shed her heritage when she cut and pasted herself into a new life, must confront old memories if she is to help her sick grandson search for spiritual answers.
Cut & Paste, a brand new play by Lane Cove writer-director Carla Moore, deals with life, death and the loss of idealism in the new millennium. It’s a funny, warm and thoughtful exploration of all the ‘cuts and pastes’ that we make in our lives, for good and for bad.
Australia has the world’s highest organ transplant success rate, but the lowest rate of organ donation. Asks playwright Moore: where have all the good intentions of the Baby Boomers gone? Are we really living in meaner, more selfish times?
In 1998 Carla Moore graduated from NIDA as a playwright. She was also high school drama teacher to a young Year 7 boy named Brenton Amies who had suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis three times a week. On one of his rare days in class, he told Carla his story. It was later to became the very first scene of Cut & Paste.
Carla taught Brenton Drama from year 5 to HSC level; he went on to have TWO kidney transplants- one at 6 years old (from his mum which turned out not to be 100% compatible) and then one at 13. He is now a healthy 22-year-old actor based in Epping and the assistant director on this production!
Cut & Paste stars young northern beaches actor Cam McCallum as 13-year-old ‘Thomas’ and 83 years young Mary Milton from Kenthurst as ‘Basia’, his Jewish grandmother who, with wisdom and courage borne of her own dark wartime experience, teaches the family about endurance and death. Joy Sweeney (Killara) is Rachel and Abby Earl of Kensington plays Nina her daughter, Thomas’ older sister. Scott Kimpton and Emily Talbot (engaged couple, Willoughby) complete the strong cast as McMansion-bound engaged couple Craig and Angela. By amazing coincidence, Scott knew Brenton as boyscouts and once visited him in hospital. Don’t miss this heart-warming play that will connect with every type of audience... on multiple levels.
Cut & Paste
Written & directed by Carla Moore
Chester Street Theatre, Cnr Chester & Oxford St Epping
11 July to 2 August 2008
Ticket: $20 (adult) $17 (conc)
Bookings: (from 16) June Mackay’s Books 50 Rawson Street, Epping. Ph 9876 6332
www.chesterststheatre.com
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