Black Swan State Theatre Presents Psychological Thriller THE HOUSE ON THE LAKE, Now thru June 22

Black Swan State Theatre Company is excited to present the World Premiere of the taut, psychological thriller The House on The Lake from award-winning playwright Aidan Fennessy (National Interest) and presented as part of the Black Swan Lab in the intimate Studio Underground at State Theatre Centre of WA from today 6 to Sunday 22 June 2014.

We are all liars. Little white lies dot our lives, and big ones can change our lives. We tell them to our spouses, our families, our lovers, our children, our friends, our parents. And we don't stop there - we tell lies to colleagues, bosses, acquaintances, police, shop attendants, even doctors. To survive today you have to be very good at two things: lying and deciphering the lies. Knowing when you are being lied to is an essential survival skill.

David Rail, a prominent lawyer, awakes in a hospital room with no idea of how he got there. Dr Alice Lowe scrambles to piece together the mystery because in fifteen minutes time he'll forget everything all over again. The House on The Lake is a labyrinthine mystery that hides at its dark heart a hideous crime and explores the line between truth and lies, between memory and deception, between justice and revenge.

As an audience member you have to piece together the events and then decide if the accused is guilty or in fact the victim of some other crime? Who is to blame? Who is telling the truth? All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

The House on The Lake features actors Kenneth Ransom (The Mother f**ker with the Hat) and Marthe Rovik (HEDDA) and directed by Stuart Halusz with India Mehta: Sets & Costume Design, Trent Suidgeest: Lighting Design and Brett Smith: Sound Design.

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Photo Credit: Robert Firth, Acorn Photography