THAT EYE, THE SKY

Adapted (with Richard Roxburgh) from Tim Winton's novel.

The play was nominated for Best Play by the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle, the New South Wales Literary Board, and The Adelaide Festival Board, in 1995.

It is the funny and moving story of young Ort Flack trying to come to terms with getting older, his father's near fatal car accident, a strange cloud that hangs over their Western Australia home, and a tormented stranger who might just be there for wicked purposes...

CLOUDSTREET

Adapted by Justin Monjo and Nick Enright from the novel by Tim Winton.

Presented by a cast of 15, this epic play swept across Australia and brought European audiences to tears and rapturous applause. Playwrights Monjo and Enright create a gripping saga of two very different families thrust together by misfortune, who must overcome their awkwardness in order to resolve inner conflicts and achieve a measure of self realisation.

Set in a ramshackle mansion (which used to be a home for Aboriginal girls), the narrative centres on young 'Fish' Lamb, who is intellectually handicapped due to an accident. His mystical journey underscores the voyages undertaken by the other characters: the Pickles family struggles with the temptations of adultery, the bottle and Lady Luck; the Lamb family with financial hardship and a fundamental crisis of faith.

After twenty years and various momentous episodes in the shared house, the focus finally falls on Rose Pickles and Quick Lamb, who carry the collective hopes and fears of their respective families. Rose and Quick meld the destinies of the two families and exorcise the spectres of the past once and for all, so that a hard-won peace settles over Cloudstreet.