Lane Cove Theatre Company Presents Cloudstreet – A Huge Australian Classic To Bring You Out of Winter Hibernation

One of In the Cove’s favourite novels is Cloudstreet by Tim Winton.  The Lane Cove Theatre Company’s next production is Cloudstreet adapted by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo and directed by Ryan Whitworth-Jones.   The season will run from 11th to 27th August at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville.

Cloudstreet is an epic tale of two Australian families dealing with heartbreak and joy over the course of two decades following the war, united by their co-habitation of a sprawling Perth house with a haunted past.

“It reflects a contemporary Australian mythology, with very Australian settings and characters, but is universal in its themes. Families are challenged by crises, fractured, and come back together again, but the play is also very funny, and never forgets to show the humour and camaraderie between brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, parents and children.”  says Director Ryan Whitworth Jones.

The house at Number One Cloud Street is a great continent where two damaged clans collide. The two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—are as contrasting as the Australia they inhabit. Teetotallers and tipplers, workhorses or wastrels, fate makers versus chance chasers. But really, they’re two sides of the same coin, one that was tossed during World War II and remained in motion for decades.

The power of this staggering Australian saga is more haunting than the ghosts who speak out from the walls. It’s more elusive than the serial killer who prowls their neighbourhood. It’s transcendent, like the Lambs and the Pickles themselves, whose lives and loves live on today.

Ryan says “Cloudstreet by Winton emphasises our distinctive position globally and presents the potential for a more robust identity—one that allows Indigenous cultural knowledge and Western culture to coexist harmoniously, mutually influencing and engaging with each other.”

Cast and Crew

Performance rights for CLOUDSTREET exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd.

Photography by Jim Crew from Lane Cove Creative Photography – who meet every fortnight in Lane Cove.  Details here.

Booking Details

11-27 August 2023 at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s

1 Christina Street, Longueville

Tickets $30 / $25 conc / $23 groups 10+ / add $10 cheese plate/ $8 dessert plate

11-27 August 2023

Fridays & Saturdays 7.30 pm, Sundays 2 pm

The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s

Bookings:  https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/968017
Website: www.lanecovetheatrecompany.com

Performance rights for CLOUDSTREET exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd.

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