"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.

The End of Sophie and all her Friends

Suzanne Rofe (Blue Room World First)

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Dates:
(Preview Wed 29 Nov),
Thu 30 Nov – Sat 2 Dec,
Tue 5 – Sat 9 Dec,
Tue 12 - Sat 16 Dec

Time:
Tue & Wed shows 6:30pm,
Thu - Sat shows 9:00pm


About the Venue

The Blue Room Studio
29 November to 16 December 2006

 Image: Luke Milton

Featuring Summer Williams, Ben Russell, Rebekah Smith, Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Sophie Dunham.

Written and directed by Suzanne Rofe
Design, Photography, Puppets and Assistant Direction by Luke Milton
Stage Management by Stephen Warren
Puppetry Direction by Ben Russell

In Antarctica, in a crumbling local library, and in a sex shop near you, three people sit and wait. And ponder the end of Sophie.

Bernadette is turning into a librarian, and it scares the hell out of her.

Oliver is trying to get together a pair of penguins for the sake of the species and ponders the chance that one of them may be gay.

Ursula just wants a challenge.

And Sophie is gone - dead? Or disappeared? Or something else? A bittersweet exploration of love, loneliness and two penguins, The End of Sophie and all her Friends is brought to you by the creative team behind last year's Red Meat.

"I think she just removed me and slotted in someone more able and appropriate. And the principle force in my life disappeared. I cried, and I raged, and I got angry - and then I grew up. And here I am. I'm alive, I got through it. Pity she didn't..."

Tickets:

Full $20 / Conc. $15
Blue Room Members: Full $15 / Conc. $10