Sydney Theatre Company Announces Free Reading & Workshop
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 17, 2010
FREE EVENTS AT SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
Sydney Theatre Company presents a rehearsed reading ofThe Slow Swordby Yuri Klavdiyev, translated by Noah Birksted-BreenWednesday 17 February 2010 at 7pm
Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company, Hickson Rd, Walsh BaySydney Theatre Company presents a rehearsed reading of The Slow Sword by Russian playwright Yuri Klavdiyev, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen. The reading will be directed by STC Associate Director, Tom Wright, with a cast including Dan Wyllie, Torquil Neilson, Julia Billington and Helen Christinson.The Slow Sword was given its first English language production by London's Sputnik Theatre Company in 2007. The play invites its audience to join Vlad, a young man with a profession, a healthy income and a gorgeous girlfriend, on a tour of the streets of Moscow. As he encounters a cast of degenerates, Vlad's eyes are opened to harsh realities of Putin's Russia.
Saturday 20 February 2010 at 5pm
Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company, Hickson Rd, Walsh BaySydney Theatre Company's first Rough Draft of 2010 plays host to the contemporary performance collective, post. Zoe Coombs Marr, Mish Grigor and Natalie Rose have the run of Wharf 1 for a week-long workshop on their latest work, Who's The Best?, leading to a free one-off work-in-progress showing at Wharf 1 on Saturday 20 February at 5pm.post are exploring the nature of competition and the business of becoming the best. During the week the trio, whose previous works include the darkly comic Gifted and Talented and Shamelessly Glitzy Work, will generate material through improvisation that they will then sculpt into a script.
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