“There’s a time for being grief stricken, there’s a time for weeping and wailing and carrying on and beating your breast, but it comes to an end. It has to.” – Roy

It’s the summer holidays of 1967 and all Australians are going away: to the Gold Coast, the beach up north, the campsite, or, for some, the deep dark and treacherous jungles of the Vietnam War.

Three Australian families have set out for their own holidays but are brought together by a miraculous storm reminiscent of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Through the times of struggle, suffering and chaos come moments of clarity, regeneration and reconciliation.

Away is unashamedly Australian in its sometimes funny and sometimes painfully truthful depiction of a young country coming of age. Layered with symbolism and magical realism, and drawing from the great texts of Shakespeare and the Ancient Greeks, Away speaks closely to our social and political climate, and to the holiday-maker in all of us.

Away by Michael Gow
Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November, 2011
7:00pm
The Studio, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh

Starring Maxim Bevan, Tessa Price-Brooks, Tori Sandercock, Stephanie Tarnay, Madeline Higginson, Emilia Zygocki, Georgina Busby, Libby Bellchambers, Ebony Church, Jeff Choy and Yajing Li
Design crew featuring Brandon Jimenez (Multimedia), Summer Bickerton (Costume) and Alex Wilson
Directed by Aldo Longobardi and Kiara Bacon

Tickets on sale early Term 4