Arts House to Present EDMUND. THE BEGINNING in November

EDMUND. THE BEGINNING is both an exercise in distorted biography and a confessional torrent.

Brian Lipson summons a disordered array of characters from the impatient past and the murky present: some are familiar, some are famous, some are known only to Lipson - none are comfortable.

Fifteen years ago Lipson's acclaimed solo show, A Large Attendance in the Antechamber, won two Green Room Awards before touring for the next seven years extensively throughout Australia and to festivals in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Lipson is now considerably older and considerably less wise, but he can still talk very fast.

EDMUND. THE BEGINNING is even more complex than its predecessor and each of its many characters is both a real person and an imaginary figure. But who imagines whom? Who is Whom? Who is Alive? Who is Dead? And Why?

In EDMUND. THE BEGINNING, literary giants, sirens, reprobates and infants cavort in existential quadrille. A few you will recognise, others you won't. All will ring bells.

Since moving to Australia from the United Kingdom over seventeen years ago, Lipson has worked with Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir; and many independent companies including The Family, Hayloft, Eleventh Hour, ICE, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Chunky Move and GoD Be IN MouTH.

Writer, Designer & Performer Brian Lipson Director Peter Evans Producer Wendy Lasica Costume Designers Brian Lipson, Mel Page

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