Another brilliant production from Red Phoenix now playing at Holden Street Theatres
The Stirling Players have presented an all Aussie line-up for their first production since COVID-19 shut down Australia’s theatres in March.
Set in Altamont, North Carolina in 1916 the play takes place, for the most part, in the Dixieland Boarding House. Thought to be mostly autobiographical Thomas Wolfe’s story, adapted by Keith Frings, is complex and focuses on family relationships.
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus) was the third Emperor of the Roman Empire known for supposedly sleeping with all his sisters, executing landowners to take control of their lands, closing granaries to cause starvation and taking the wives of his senators and putting them into brothels (when he wasn't killing their children). Also, he reputedly had conversations with the moon and adored his horse so much that he was going to make it a member of the Roman Senate.
Drawing on four of Shakespeare's history plays (Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V), director Rob Croser has woven an enthralling single play.
This is a whodunit, murder mystery that produces a somewhat psychologically disturbing twist no-one saw coming, with a few laughs along the way.
Stirling Players are about to present 'Our Country's Good" based on Thomas Keneally's novel, 'The Playmaker' concerning the production of the first play to be staged in Australia.
There are laughs, hints of tears and plenty of good old entertainment to be had in this production, so treat yourself to a night out.