2022 Season La Mama Courthouse, Carlton: 18th - 29th May Riverlinks Westside, Mooroopna: 7th June Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park: 10th & 11th June Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin: 15th June Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey: 17th June HEARTH has been selected for the VCAA 2022 Playlist for VCE Theatre Studies Unit 3 & 4. Click the button below for more info regarding educational resources and script purchase. |
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Creative Team: Writer: Fleur Murphy Director: Tom Royce-Hampton Dramaturge: Emma Fawcett Producer: Fiona Stafford Set & Costume: Chantal Marks Lighting: Clare Springett Sound: Max Royce-Hampton & Tom Royce Hampton Education Consultant: Michele McNamara Stage Manager: Kaite Head ASM/Op: Holly Anderson Cast: Geoff Paine Sonya Suares Kurt Pimblett Carole Patullo Martin Blum Eleanor Webster |
"Fleur writes with acuity, elan and a keen awareness of our shared cultural flashpoints. More than that, there is real heart and a searching honesty in her work." - Chris Mead
“Hearth is an extraordinarily prescient play for our times. With its mixture of pathos and humour, it’s seamlessly crafted from go to woe. The characters are complex and highly conflicted, their stories delicately woven and delivered through emotionally charged language that leaves you floored.” - Raimondo Cortese, Playwright & Course Coordinator of the Masters of Writing for Performance at VCA “I enjoyed it immensely. The piece offers a very strong evocation of so many of the present-day realities of regional family lives. It touches on a range of things that often get dubbed 'issues', but it does so in a way that is so authentic that the audience never feels they are being pushed to a certain position or judgment. I feel sure this work will resonate with audiences and particularly those who have experienced or who are living in regional Australia. We often bemoan the lack of original work coming out of the regions. Even though the author is now city-based herself, there is no doubt this play 'comes out of the regions' and speaks of that significant place in our national society. Thank you Fleur for your fine script. I look forward to seeing it becoming a fully-fledged performance that will have a strong claim to be presented widely.” - Rob Robson, former Manager of West Gippsland Performing Arts Centre HEARTH was recently long-listed for the 2020 Theatre503 Award in London, and short-listed for the 2021 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. |