By Hilary Bell Sbw Stables Theatre 6 September – 12 October 2019
GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS GRIFFIN THEATRE SPLINTER COMPANY BY HILARY BELL SBW STABLES THEATRE 6 SEPTEMBER – 12 OCTOBER 2019 DIRECTOR LEE LEWIS DESIGNER TOBHIYAH STONE FELLER LIGHTING DESIGNER BENJAMIN BROCKMAN SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER ALYX DENNISON VIDEO DESIGNER MIC GRUCHY STAGE MANAGER REBECCA POULTER WITH LUCY BELL SIMON GLEESON Supported by Griffin’s Production Partner program Griffin acknowledges the generosity of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in allowing it the use of the SBW Stables Theatre rent free, less outgoings, since 1986. Government partners PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE Splinter had its premiere in 2012 at can no longer resist it, and it takes hold, Sydney Theatre Company, following he must keep shifting the line in the a couple of intensive creative sand in order to sustain his logic. developments. It was a beautiful Splinter came to me pretty much whole. production co-directed by Sarah Goodes Unlike some other plays, where I’ve and puppeteer Alice Osborne, with floundered, found myself becalmed, guidance from dramaturge Polly Rowe. been filled with misgivings, I knew from Originally commissioned as a work for the first instant what this play wanted children (!), it darkly bloomed into a to be. The final draft is not substantially kind of gothic thriller. I brought to the different from my first outline. The play two of my creative obsessions: writing work that followed was mostly a fairy tales, and the Unreliable Narrator. matter of putting flesh on the bones. My references spanned sources as diverse as Henry James’ The Turn of the It’s unusual for a contemporary Screw, folk tales about changelings, Australian play to get a second life.
[Show full text]