‘Wife’, A Look At 60 Years Of Sexuality, Playing At New Theatre
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鈥淭he truth is we have to give up parts of ourselves if we want to be with someone.鈥�
A love-letter to the power of theatre, and a decade-hopping investigation into marriage, queerness and gender.
Daisy is at a crossroads. Her moral compass tells her to go one way, society the other. What she chooses to do next will have consequences not just for her and her husband, but for four couples over the next ninety years.
With Ibsen鈥檚 classic drama of marital discord,聽A Doll鈥檚 House, as its unifying device, the play ranges across the fifties, the eighties, the present and the future.
In expat Australian playwright Samuel Adamson鈥檚 highly original Wife, we meet intertwined characters, gay and straight, over generations, all invested in some way with the concept of 鈥榳ife鈥�, Ibsen鈥檚 rebellious Nora being the benchmark against which they judge themselves.
Australian premiere
鈥淐hallenging and thought-provoking, brimming with pathos, politics and laugh-out-loud moments鈥澛�Diva Magazine
奥丑别苍?听October 8 – November 2 2024
奥丑别谤别?听New Theatre, King Street, Newtown
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