"The Blue Room Theatre is a nurturing environment for established and emerging artists and is instrumental in its role in providing professional development opportunites."
Lord Mayor, the Right Honourable Lisa Scaffidi

"The Blue Room felt like home and I missed it when it all finished."

Dawn Pascoe, She Dances In The Dark.

Gertrude the Cry

Skylight Theatre Ensemble (Blue Room World First)

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Dates:
(Preview Tue 20 May),
Wed 21 May – Sat 24 May,
Tue 27 – Sat 31 May,
Tue 3 - Sat 7 Jun

Time:
All shows 8:00pm


About the Venue

The Blue Room Theatre
20 May to 7 June 2008

  

Written by Howard Barker
Directed by Serge Tampalini
Music Composition by Michael Workman

Featuring Julia Perkins, Tristen Parr, Jeremy Mitchell, Danielle Taylor, Kit Sparrow, Marlene O'Dea, Tara Walker and Paul Grabovac

Howard Barker's play about power, sex, death and moral failings is a murderous and uncompromising tragedy that resists catharsis or moral enlightenment.

Highlighting the sexual nature of the crime at the heart of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Barker turns his unflinching examination of the darkest motivations of human behaviour to the tragic love story of Gertrude and Claudius. In Barker's own words…

"Gertrude is bound to Claudius by an exquisite crime or the play hardly hangs together."

Evocative language, challenging ideas and sly, dark humour create a powerful palimpsest that will confront your perceptions of this familiar text. Barker defends and redefines the character of Gertrude (played by Julia Perkins), showing us that the excessive nature of her immorality bestows a sort of innocence that challenges any simplistic moral judgements.

In the first professional production of Barker's formative work in Western Australia, we learn that new moral values can be found in the most unexpected and often occluded places in people's lives.

WARNING: This play contains adult themes, coarse language and nudity. Rated R.

Tickets:

Full $22 / Conc. $15
Blue Room Members: Full $18 / Conc. $12