Gwen in Purgatory

31 July - 19 September

Namatjira

25 September - 7 November

The Bougainville Photoplay Project

9 November - 28 November

The Diary of a Madman

4 December - 6 February

MUST CLOSE 5 NOVEMBER

A co-production with Malthouse Theatre

"...a whimsical, argumentative, satirical and deeply serious play - among Sewell's finest... For Company B, the production marks a triumphant return to its renovated home in Belvoir Street" SMH, 6.10.06

Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes, including interval

Stephen Sewell

Neil Armfield

With
Kim Gyngell, Catherine McClements, Rebecca Massey and John Wood

In a celebration to open our newly refurbished Belvoir St Theatre Neil Armfield is reunited with long time collaborator and one of Australia’s most important storytellers, Stephen Sewell (The Blind Giant is Dancing and Three Furies), to present the hotly anticipated world premiere season of Stephen’s latest play. A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell’s play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?

What begins as a sparkling dream in the style of the golden age of American cinema ends as an existential nightmare for the “War on Terror” generation. A sugar coated knife slowly turned in the belly from the pen of our most provocative playwright.