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The Ruffian on the Stair   The Doctor (In Spite of Himself)
     
'I'm to be at King's Cross Station at eleven. I'm meeting a man in the toilet'

'You always go to such interesting places.'

.........So begins Joe Orton's dark and disturbing comic thriller. Written in 1963 and first broadcast by the BBC in 1964 this play marked the first success in Orton's all too short playwriting career. One of the most controversial figures of British Theatre of the 60s, Orton's brand of drama railed against bourgeois values and embraced working class themes and audiences. Ruffian on the Stair resonates just as powerfully today with it's themes of isolation, grief, revenge, fear, sex, death and homosexuality, all tied together with Orton's trademark black humour.........

'Some men would kill you. You're lucky I'm
not some'

 
 

Sganarelle, a vain and posturing tree lopper finds himself thrust accidentally into the unlikely role of physican. His fast growing popularity, and the fact that dead patients don’t tell tales, convince him to embrace his new profession wholeheartedly. The Doctor In Spite Of Himself, a hilarious high energy farce, written in 1666, holds a mirror up to the corruption of the medical profession in the seventeenth century but remains startlingly relevant today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
Nil, Cat & Buried    
   
By Stephen Sewell
Directed and Adapted by Alice Bishop

'When you look into someone’s eyes and can’t see anyone looking back, that’s when your skin really starts to crawl.'

Playwright Stephen Sewell is one of Australian theatre’s most powerful voices – he tells us how it is and in his truth-telling there is always the hope and potential for social and political change.

Director Alice Bishop interweaves Sewell’s three stories of love, sex, violence and horror. With Natalie Carr As Candy, Richard Cawthorne as Cat, David Kambouris as Nick and Elizabeth Thomson as Karen. Original score by Biddy Connor, Set design by Sian Blohm, Lighting Design by Isobel Ferns.

 
   
 
 
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