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The Wild
Duck

By Simon Stone with Chris Ryan after Henrik Ibsen
Director Simon Stone

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 12 Feb – 27 Mar 2011

    Winner of four 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards including
    Best Mainstage Production
    Best Direction of a Mainstage Production (Simon Stone)
    Best Actress in a Supporting Role of a Mainstage Production (Anita Hegh)
    Best Actor in a Supporting Role of a Mainstage Production
    (Anthony Phelan)

    Winner of three 2011 Helpmann Awards including
    Best Play
    Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play 
    (Anthony Phelan)
    Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play (Anita Hegh)

    Hjalmar Ekdal’s father was rich until scandal cast the family into poverty. Now he lives in a tiny flat with his father, his wife Gina and his daughter Hedvig. And a duck. And there’s about to be a new member of the household. Gregers Werle has just returned to town with some unfinished business that could shatter the little world Hjalmar has built around himself.

    Over the past few years, Simon Stone has been excavating Ibsen’s array of brutal and tender tragedies and reconstructing them for the modern stage. The process has already brought about The Only Child in the Downstairs Theatre in 2009. Now it’s The Wild Duck’s turn.

    Stone has transplanted Ibsen’s characters into the contemporary world in a new play tailor-made for an astonishing cast. This bittersweet portrait of family dysfunction, deception and denial will resound for a new age in Belvoir’s first show of the 2011 season.

    Team

    By Simon Stone with Chris Ryan after Henrik Ibsen
    Director Simon Stone
    Set Designer Ralph Myers
    Costume Designer Tess Schofield
    Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti
    Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
    Assistant Director Anne-Louise Sarks
    Dramaturg Eamon Flack
    Stage Manager Luke McGettigan
    Assistant Stage Manager Amy Morcom

    Cast

    John Gaden
    Anita Hegh
    Ewen Leslie
    Eloise Mignon
    Anthony Phelan
    Toby Schmitz

    Videos

    Production images by Heidrun Lohr
    Rehearsal images by Heidrun Lohr

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