"Unforgettable! By turns brutal and hilarious, it holds you under with a vice-like grip" Theatre Review
"Exceptional drama. A pressure cooker ready to explode” Sydney Morning Herald
Birmingham Stage Company returns to Malta with The Return - the second play by Australian writer Reg Cribb. It won the 2002 Best of Fringe Award at the Adelaide Festival, and was shortlisted for both the 2001 QLD Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Assembly Award. It received critical praise as a “tense, funny and moving work”. The Return is currently being adapted for the screen under the working title Long Way to Freo. Reg Cribb’s other plays include The Chatroom and Last Cab To Darwin.
Set on the last train to Fremantle, The Return is a dark comedy that opens with two recently liberated convicts killing time by harassing fellow passengers. When a young girl boards the train, she quickly becomes the target of their attention. The Return was inspired by Cribb’s own experience of two men terrorising a girl while people stood by and did nothing. It first premiered in Australia and won the Best In Adelaide Fringe Award.
Directed by John-Paul Cherrington, whose first production for the BSC was their acclaimed production of Collision, now heading for the West End. The cast includes Australian actor Alistair Scott-Young who plays “Steve”, playing “Lisa” is Australian actress Natasha Beaumont, series regular paramedic Rebecca Green in the hugely popular Australian medical drama All Saints. Natasha will also be seen with Cate Blanchett in the major film "Little Fish" premiering this autumn. Elizabeth Elvin plays “Maureen”, Will Irvine plays “Trev” and Neal Foster, Artistic Director of Birmingham Stage Company, returns to the stage to play the role of “the Writer”.
- Lm 7.50 and Lm 5 (concessions) - are available from St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta.
Visit: www.birminghamstage.net
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