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Local Playwright/Director Tony Moore Set To Intrigue And Amuse At Holden Street

From June 23rd Moore Books and Holden Street Theatres are presenting a double bill of one act plays at Holden Street. Both plays are written and directed by Tony Moore.

From June 23rd Moore Books and Holden Street Theatres are presenting a double bill of one act plays at Holden Street. Both plays are written and directed by Tony Moore.

The first of these plays is Noble Cause, a play about censorship. In the modern world censorship has been spreading often for the most noble of reasons. A phenomenon has arisen called Noble Cause Corruption (actually it’s probably been around for a while).

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act protects people from being offended. Universities are “no platforming” speakers whose views may offend. Facebook and the EU have recently announced that they will strengthen policies relating to “hate speech”. Any criticism of Islam is labelled as Islamophobia; anyone who may feel some concern about the introduction of same sex marriage is labelled as a ‘homophobe’. “I am not declaring here where I stand on any of these issues, nor I hope does my play. I hope that it asks questions about censorship and whether or not it can be justified” says Moore

Professor Linden who is an outspoken ally of the Palestinians and a history teacher of some note specialising in the middle east, is visited in his office by an officer of a shadowy government organisation. The man whose name is Smith wants to ask some questions and ultimately make some threats about a book the Professor is writing and is about to get published. Professor Lindon is convinced his work is vital in understanding the conflicts in the middle east and in stating the case for Islamic determination. Mr Smith on the other hand feels that the work is close to treason and wishes to suppress it. Who is correct? Come to that who is suffering from Noble Cause corruption?

Featuring Brian Godfrey fresh from his success in Sex Cells as the Professor and Stephane Avril, noted French language actor and member of Panache French Language theatre as Smith.

The second one act play is Boiled Cabbage (or A Short History Of The Second World War).

“I have been asked often why I wrote Boiled Cabbage and party the answer is Ï wanted to see if I could write absurdist theatre. Maybe I can. As absurdism always tries to be a comment on some social or political issue I chose one of the biggest political issues of the 20th Century, The Second World War.”

“It was a great geo political conflict that really did change the lives of most of the people in the world. Outside of South America there was hardly a continent that didn’t feel the effects of WW2. Millions died (look it up it will frighten you) and many never returned to the lives they lived before”.

Featuring Joanna Webb as Mum and Brian Godfrey as Dad, with Shannon Gray as Janet and Jabez Retallick as John, the play explores all the major highpoints of WW2 in about 40 mins. While Dad “did his bit” in the last war and Mum is relegated to stretching the rations by cooking cabbage, John manages to get to nearly every major battle and Janet explores all that a new world with expanding social views can offer.

Noble Cause and Boiled Cabbage will play Thursday to Saturday 23rd to 25th June and 30th June and 1st and 2nd July 8.00pm in The Studio, Holden Street Theatres 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh.

Bookings www.holdenstreettheatres.com.au

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