The Lonely Wolf - Pretty Dirty Theatre & Melbourne Theatre Company

Overview

The artists at Pretty Dirty Theatre will tread the boards at the Southbank Theatre, with an anarchic tale of insanity and obsession. A loose, contemporary adaptation of Hermann Hesse’s early twentieth-century novel Steppenwolf, The Lonely Wolf is the latest work featured as part of the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Neon Festival of Independent Theatre, which continues to showcase homegrown theatre-makers with unconventional voices.

Written and directed by company founder Gary Abrahams, The Lonely Wolf (or an Incomplete Guide for the Unadvanced Soul) combines theatre and dance with the writing of psychoanalyst James Hillman. The aim is to provide an irreverent take on the philosophical drama found in Hesse’s source material, about a man divided between his human and animal personas.

The Lonely Wolf runs from June 11 until June 21, with the June 14 show followed by an audience Q&A. For more information, visit the MTC Neon Festival website.