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Be careful what you wish for...
Hope is an icicle. If it drops from a height, it can pierce a hole right through you.
Londoner Edith Middleton arrives in Sydney in the grip of the Depression and watches her last penny roll down the drain of that great wishing well, Australia. As her life pitches into abject poverty, she bears an illegitimate child on a sweatshop floor, a gifted boy who drags his reluctant mother through the hole in his heart to discover love that is at once fragile and cruel.
Building a shell to shut out love and drinking to dull the pain of her loneliness, Edith flees to Melbourne and becomes the toast of a city in the midst of cultural upheaval as the radiant queen of her own "Wishing Well", one of the first truly European-style restaurants in Australia.
The Wishing Well is a feisty, powerful and uplifting story of resilience and love, told seductively with a wealth of actor-power, passion, vivacity and warmth - by the award-winning Matrix Theatre, one of the great originators of quality theatre in this country.
Simply not to be missed.
Warning Low level coarse language and adult themes
La Boite Theatre Company presents
Matrix Theatre’s
The Wishing Well
by Helen Howard & Michael Futcher
Director: Michael Futcher
Co-Director: Helen Howard
Designer: Josh McIntosh
Lighting Designer: David Walters
Sound Designer: Phil Slade
Featuring Andrew Buchanan, Leon Cain, Helen Cassidy, Dan Crestani, Eugene Gilfedder, Sally McKenzie, Naomi Price and Bryan Probets.
Venue: Roundhouse Theatre
Previews: 1 & 2 September
Season: 3 – 20 September
Times: Tues & Wed 6.30pm Thurs – Sat 8pm
Matinees: 11am Wed preview, 11am Tues and 2pm on the last Sat of season.
After Show Discussion Friday 12 September
Running Time: 2 hrs & 40 mins inc. interval
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