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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

“I wonder, just how long we are going to have to take it for? I wonder what is going to happen when we can’t take it any more?”

Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with, silently passing judgement. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Effie's life spirals through a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night, and a hangover worse than death the next day - till one night gives her the chance to be something more.

This powerful new adaptation of the enduring Greek myth drives home the high price people pay for society's shortcomings.

Winner of Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015.

CAST & CREATIVES

Writer Gary Owen
Director Gary Abrahams
Set & Costume Design Jacob Battista & Sophie Woodward
Lighting Design Rachel Burke
Sound Design Daniel Nixon
Dialect & Voice Coach Matt Furlani
Stage Manager Natasha Marich
Assistant Stage Manager Chelsea Maron
Directing Secondment Keegan Bragg

Cast
Jessica Clarke
Mollie Mooney (understudy)

DATES & TICKETS

Previews 19 - 22 June | Season 23 June - 8 Aug

Wed - Sat 7.30pm
Sun - 6.30pm
Sat Matinee 31st July | 7 Aug - 2pm

Sat 19 – Tues 22 June $28
Wed 23 June – Sun 8 Aug $20 - $69

“Theatre-starved audiences should make a beeline for this production, to remind themselves what quality acting can achieve.”
★★★★1/2
– The Age -

“...the final flourish in a visceral tour de force from Jessica Clarke, who gives a performance that will be hard to beat at acting awards.” ★★★★1/2
– The Age -

“Clarke handles the grungy poetry and adrenalin-fuelled narrative with magnetic presence and remorseless stamina...” ★★★★1/2
– The Age -

“Jessica Clarke gives us a brilliant performance, by turns precise, whimsical, childlike, shocking, and moving.”
– Stage Whispers -

“Clarke is triumphant every step along the way. Just how she manages to pull together such an uncompromising performance you simply must see... Extraordinary.”
– The Blurb -

Promotional photo by Robert Blackburn & Work Art Life Studios.

Production photos by Jodie Hutchinson.

We at Red Stitch acknowledge and pay our respects to Australia’s First Peoples and Elders past and present, and offer our gratitude to the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, on whose unceded lands we work.