Andrew Bovell News

Following a hugely successful 2016 Australian and UK tour, Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia's critically acclaimed Things I Know To Be True returns to delight audiences in the UK from 27 September 2017.

After playing to sold-out audiences around the country and unanimous critical acclaim, multi-award winning play The Secret River has continued its extraordinary success at the 2017 Adelaide Festival, selling out its season with nine performances to go.

There is not a weak link anywhere in this production.

The debut Adelaide Festival from Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy will mark a return to artistic works on a grand scale, with epic opera, theatrical spectacle under the stars and the biggest and most ambitious Festival hub in the event's history all set to dazzle in the 2017 program.

The countdown is on to the 2017 Adelaide Festival's opening weekend, with a whole host of events starting tomorrow to ring in the debut festival for Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy.

It's the summer of 1977 and 22-year-old Lenka is fleeing authoritarian Czechoslovakia for the art and beauty of New York City. At the start of her journey, Lenka is confronted by an Old Woman from an extinct Slavic tribe who guides her through a dream-like world where the past and future meet and multiple realities collide.

Digital Theatre is thrilled to announce the capture of Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia's (STCSA) acclaimed production, Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell.

Thank you to everyone who auditioned for our February show, Andrew Bovell's Speaking in Tongues. We're currently wrapping up our casting process and excited to begin rehearsals! Please join us February 23-26 at Nakano Pocket Theatre. If you're interested in joining the crew for this production, please see the Volunteer Orientation Party notice below!

The debut Adelaide Festival from Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy will mark a return to artistic works on a grand scale, with epic opera, theatrical spectacle under the stars and the biggest and most ambitious Festival hub in the event's history all set to dazzle in the 2017 program.

As the Lyric's smash-hit Bugsy Malone, returns to the stage for a limited 12-week run, the theatre announces a new production to complete their autumn season - Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and f**king.

The Adelaide Festival has today announced two more sensational shows from its 2017 program: the Adelaide premiere of Neil Armfield's landmark Sydney Theatre Company production THE SECRET RIVER in an epic new open-air performance staged in the Anstey Hill Quarry, presented in association with State Theatre Company of South Australia, and the exclusive Australian premiere of PETER AND THE WOLF starring Miriam Margolyes with music by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

After a hugely successful world premiere in Adelaide in May followed by an equally acclaimed season in Canberra, Things I Know To Be True opened its UK season in London on Friday night to an engaged audience, who gave the cast a cheering and whistling standing ovation. In a first ever international collaboration, State Theatre Company jointly commissioned and coproduced the play with UK's Frantic Assembly - who have been hailed by UK's The Times as 'the most innovative and progressive company around.' Andrew Bovell, Things I Know To Be True was recreated by its Australian and UK creative team with a British cast that premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in London.

Gary Naylor sees a play with plenty of emotional torment on display but a dubious political message that sits ill with its venue.

Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling continues the Wilma Theater's 2016-17 season. A fish falls from the sky in the year 2039. A man named Gabriel prepares to meet his adult son after being estranged for twenty years. He wonders why his son is coming and what he wants: to know who he is? Where he comes from? Where he belongs? Gabriel knows nothing; his own past escapes him. As the story of Gabriel's family unfolds onstage, his ancestors come alive around him to fill in the gaps. With its web of intricately overlapping connections, When the Rain Stops Falling follows four generations of a family from 1959 to 2039, and from London to Australia. As this family and their world evolve over time, one question remains: in the face of climate change, can we break our habits and change the way we live?

Production photography is now available for the UK premiere of Things I Know To Be True, an exciting international co-production betweenFrantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia. The play is currently in previews at Lyric Hammersmith and opening night will be Friday 16th September, ahead of its tour to Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, Salford and Chichester. 

Andrew Bovell's Things I Know To Be True, a Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia co-production, opened earlier this year in Adelaide and is now playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith, led by Imogen Stubbs. Scott Graham, co-founder of Frantic Assembly, and Geordie Brookman, artistic director of State Theatre Company, discuss collaborating on this unique project.

Frantic Assembly's Things I Know To Be True, an exciting international co-production between Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia is in rehearsal and BroadwayWorld has your first look.

Broken by Mary Anne Butler is the first drama to win one of the most prestigious and sought after awards in Australia, the Victorian Premier's Award for literature.

Broken by Mary Anne Butler is the first drama to win one of the most prestigious and sought after awards in Australia, the Victorian Premier's Award for literature.

After a hugely successful and critically acclaimed world premiere season in Adelaide, Andrew Bovell's Things I Know To Be True will have its UK premiere in September this year, for which the full cast has been announced.