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

Behind the Scenes Book Tickets

Poprishin’s got love and he’s on his way to the very top.

Nikolai Gogol

Adapted by
David Holman with Neil Armfield & Geoffrey Rush

Neil Armfield

With
Geoffrey Rush and Yael Stone

Back in 1989 two young fabulists, Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush, spun Nikolai Gogol’s famous story into landmark piece of Australian theatre. In 2010, still fabulating, they’re doing it again.

St Petersburg in the time of the Czar. Poprishin is a kind of human photocopier: he spends his days writing what’s on one page onto another page for endless thousands of pages. Towering above him is the most insane and terrifying hierarchy in human history. Down the bottom with him are millions of other clerks.

But Poproshin’s a little bit different. Poprishin’s got love and he’s on his way to the very top.

In an age of ridiculous ambition and ubiquitous work, Gogol’s comic tale is a loser’s Hamlet. It burrows into our wildest fantasies and finds wonderful play in the gap between who we are and who we think we are.

The Diary of a Madman is Neil’s parting feast of laughter, rage, sadness, loss, love, joy, hope, and the eternal possibility that we’re on the verge of something tremendous.

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