Red Stitch Presents The Australian Premiere Of WAKEY WAKEY By Will Eno
Red Stitch presents the Australian premiere of Wakey Wakey, the latest work from acclaimed American playwright Will Eno.
Written during Eno's five year residency at New York's Signature Theatre Company, Wakey Wakey is both a celebration and a meditation on life; a joyful exhortation to live authentically.
With the assistance of quirky projected visuals and a supportive music score, Eno's everyman hero, Guy, invites his audience to join him in exploring the question for which no philosopher, physician or theologian has been able to provide a definitive answer.
At once gently perceptive and unashamedly humorous, Wakey Wakey is an idiosyncratic conversation through the trivial and profound, urging us to re-examine our relationship to the world.
"People talk about matters of Life and Death. But it's really just Life, isn't it. When you think about it."
One of America's leading living playwrights, Eno's evocative imagery and preoccupation with the nature of being has been compared to that of Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee. Wakey Wakey - the second of Eno's plays to premiere in Australia at Red Stitch - is directed by David Myles in his first production for the Company. David's directorial credits range from opera to drama to rock musicals in Europe and Australia, including The Merchant of Venice with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre.
Red Stitch Ensemble member Justin Hosking is joined by guest actor Nicole Nabout in her debut for the Company. Hosking brings an intimate knowledge of Eno's work, having performed in Eno's The Realistic Joneses for the Red Stitch in 2017. James Lew (Set and Costume) and Justin Gardam (Sound Design) return to the creative team, and Marshall White (AV) and Lucas Silva-Myles (Lighting Design) join Red Stitch for the first time.
Bookings: (03) 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net
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