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 this Sunday!

"...immediate, brilliantly crafted and riveting... Armfield's splendidly realised production is clear, purposeful and near-seamless." Bryce Hallett, The Sydney Morning Herald

"...a thoroughly absorbing epic drama... one of the best large casts assembled in Sydney for many years." John McCallum, The Australian

“A triumph of theatre, drama, relevance and timeliness... don’t miss out.” Diana Symonds, The Sunday Telegraph

"Armfield's production is snakily alive and epically arresting... one of the most authorative and capivating productions we have seen in a long time." The Age, 29.08.05

David Hare

Neil Armfield

With
Paul Bertram, Wayne Blair, Peter Carroll, Ralph Cotterill, Russell Dykstra, John Gaden, Victoria Haralabidou, George Henare, Russell Kiefel, Rebecca Massey, Pip Miller, Rhys Muldoon, Leah Purcell, Hazem Shammas, Greg Stone and Sandy Winton

Presented by arrangement with the National Theatre of Great Britain

Company B's first production in its temporary home at the Seymour Centre is one of the most compelling new plays of our time.

On April 11, 2003, while Baghdad was being pillaged in the aftermath of invasion, the American Secretary of Defense held a press conference at which he said, “Stuff happens… and it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”

David Hare (My Zinc Bed, The Judas Kiss) takes Rumsfeld’s comments as the starting point for his odyssey into the heart of the reasons for the invasion of Iraq. Transcripts from articles and press conferences are fused with real dialogue collected in personal interviews.

In Neil Armfield’s epic production, a large cast takes us on an urgent and exhilarating ride from the Oval Office to the streets of Baghdad to the inevitable outcome.