Return Season at the Theatre Royal.
"Simply awesome. Cloudstreet is a winner from beginning to end...something native, new, vast and unforgettable." The Sydney Morning Herald, January 1998
"The audience is hooked into a dialogue that often touches the soul" The Age, January 1998
"I don't think I've seen a more enthralling epic since the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby 20 years ago" The Times (London), September 1999
"Cloudstreet is the kind of show that comes along about once a decade to remind us why we keep going to the theatre in the expectation of plenty." International Herald Tribune, September 1999
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Adapted by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo
Neil Armfield
Roy Billing, Wayne Blair, Anna Brockway, Andrew Crabbe, John Gaden, Claire Jones,Gillian Jones, John Leary, Eliza Logan, Rebecca Massey, Travis McMahon, Kris McQuade, Christopher Pitman, Kevin Smith and Dan Wyllie. Musicians: Matthew Hoy, Iain Grandage.
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In 1998, more than 15,000 people in Sydney were captivated by Cloudstreet, while thousands more clamoured to get in. Now, after a sell-out tour to Australian and European cities, where it picked up the Best International Production Award from the Dublin Festival, Cloudstreet makes a welcome return to Sydney.
Adapted from Tim Winton's great novel, Cloudstreet is an epic story of two families spanning three decades. From two separate catastrophes, two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering house at No. 1 Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again. For 20 years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.
Cloudstreet was declared one of the past decade's most important theatrical events when it premiered at the unique waterfront venue at Darling Harbour in 1998. Now in Sydney's Theatre Royal, Cloudstreet welcomes audiences back into the lives of the Lambs and the Pickles.
"When we opened Cloudstreet in 1998 we had no idea of the need, the hunger of Australian audiences for this story of this country," says director Neil Armfield. "Now we know that this need, in fact, is world-wide. The great English playwright David Hare said when he saw Cloudstreet "no one in Britain would dare to write a story of such innocence - it's as if you have been given the right to start over again." The experience of performing this work has been both humbling and thrilling."
We welcome into the family of Cloudstreet Gillian Jones, one of Company B's most loved performers, as Oriel Lamb, and Roy Billing as Sam Pickles, as well as newcomers Andrew Crabbe and Eliza Logan as Chubb Pickles and Red Lamb. After an acclaimed international tour to Europe in 1999, where it picked up the Best International Production Award from the Dublin Festival, we welcome back Cloudstreet to Sydney in 2001.
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