A play about naturism is the quirkiest of six plays on offer next year from Sydney’s theatre of first chances.
Actors getting their kit off is old news. But a play in which the entire cast is starkers for much of it poses a particular set of challenges for director Declan Greene.
“For me, the difference between nudity for shock value or nudity for titillation and nudity for context and symbolism is the author’s intention,” Greene says.is about what happens when humans in natural state are confronted by their vulnerability to a world changing around them. Griffin’s 2025 season will be staged in exile at the Seymour Theatre, Wharf Theatre 1 and 2 and the Old Fitzroy Hotel while its Kings Cross home undergoes a $6 million renovation. “We call it our couch-surfing era,” Greene quips.came to her after being evacuated with her Queensland family during the 2019-20 bushfires, a forerunner to the fierce blazes that turned parts of NSW, Victoria and South Australia to ash.
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