The title says it all; A Very Brilliant Thing
For their final offering of 2020, the State Theatre Company of South Australia presents David Lindsay-Abaire's mischievous production, Ripcord.
This play is nothing short of a triumph, full of people who’ve been left off the stage for too long, and a piece of this country’s history largely ignored.
Commissioned by State Theatre Company S.A. to write a work which examines the world of Australian Rules football and the varieties of sexual misconduct found within it, playwright Patricia Cornelius has written an intricate and elegant 6-hander which plays like chamber music.
Taking place in the penthouse suite of a premier Vale hotel, the New Year celebrations of the Vale family are interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest, forcing long buried secrets to the surface.
An award winning script that presents a highly engaging and occasionally very funny story, brave enough not to shy away from some very heavy subject matters.
Chris and Clair are a married couple in a time of change and it appears that they are drifting apart, but all is not what it seems.