After a critically acclaimed season in Adelaide, House of Sand brings new Australian play The Split by Sarah Hamilton to The Old 505 in Newtown this December.
In the wake of two diverse extravagant offerings for Sydney Audiences – 2018’sREVOLT SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.byAlice Birch and 2019’s experimental 24 hour durational event All (H)Ours – House of Sand and director Charley Sanders embrace intimacy and introspection with Hobart-based playwright Sarah Hamilton’s newest work.
The Split follows the relationship of two people, Tom and Jules, on a small fishing boat. Very little will happen. Everything will change. The latest quiet masterpiece from Sarah Hamilton (They Saw a Thylacine, Performing Lines), is a uniquely meditative and characteristically visceral production with a cast of stellar emerging talent.
Starring emerging Adelaide actor Max Garcia-Underwood (ABCiView’s Fucking Adelaide, STCSA’s Welcome The Bright World) as Tom and Sydneysider Amy Victoria Brooks (House of Sand’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, The New Theatre’s Once In Royal David City) as Jules. The producers behind musical sensation Stellie, Mario Späte and Max Garcia-Underwood have composed a wistful and beautiful original score.
“Sarah has a unique sensitivity for the meditative, healing, loving hug that theatre can be. The Split is a play about how we relate to those closest to us at times of immense impending change. In the current ecological and political climate, where change for the worse seems to be around every corner, I can think of no more important question to ponder than ‘how do we change internally, and deal with external change, well?’”- Charley Sanders, director
After debuting in Adelaide, this premiere production of The Split lands in Sydney for two weeks only at The Old 505, 5 Eliza Street Newtown.
Season:
Dec 3 – 14, 8pm, Tuesday to Saturday
Tickets: full price $40, con/U30 via: www.old505theatre.com
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