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My Family and Other Animals
 

My Family and Other Animals

By Gerald Durrell

Adapted by Janys Chambers

Directed by Elizabeth Munro and Mark G. Nagle

Season: 17th Sept - 22nd Oct 2022
Preview night 16th Sept
Friday and Saturday nights at 7.30pm
Sunday matinée at 4.30pm

It's 1935, and an eccentric English family - four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog - arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life.

For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, the extraordinary landscape provides the perfect playground. Its exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom - and his much-loved memoir My Family and Other Animals recently shown as The Durrells on TV.

Janys Chambers' acclaimed stage adaptation was first seen at York Theatre Royal, and invites other theatre companies to make ingenious and inventive decisions, bringing to life all the inhabitants of Durrell's cherished island - whether they walk and talk, fly and squawk, crawl or swim or slither.

An Amateur Production By Arrangement With ORiGiNTM Theatrical On Behalf Of Nick Hern Books

 

Event details

Venue: Genesian Theatre, 420 Kent St, Sydney
Bookings: www.genesiantheatre.com.au/MyFamily
Start Date: Sunday 02 October 2022

Please read our COVID Safety Guidelines before booking or attending a performance. Face masks are required to attend this production.

 

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