Overview
Red Stitch Theatre's About Tommy sees the company follow their established inclination towards challenging, subversive subject matter. The translated Thor Bjorn Krebs play, directed here by Kat Hendry, transports the audience back in time to war torn 1990's Yugoslavia to explore the emotional realities faced by soldiers, both on and off the battlefield. Hendry aims to challenge her relocated viewer by telling the horror tales of wartime through the innovative use of live-action performance, intermingled with actual newsreel footage of the conflict.
Within this creative, unorthodox composition, cast members Matthew Whitty, Kate Cole and Paul Henri collectively play 11 characters, compellingly conveying the maelstrom of emotions evoked in the context of conflict, particularly in the minds and hearts of UN peacekeepers who are given the impossible task of merely monitoring war rather than engaging in it.
Image via Red Stitch Theatre.
Information
When
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - Saturday, May 25, 2013
Thursday, May 2 - Saturday, May 25, 2013
Where
Red Stitch Actors Theatre2 Chapel Street
St Kilda