'The full force of nature
'From the monumental playwriting talents of 2020 Patrick White Playwrights Fellow Angus Cerini (The Bleeding Tree, Wonnangatta) comes this epic and poetic story of love, loss and renewal.
'Stage and screen legends Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong play Ray and Floss, a farming couple who have lived off the land their entire adult lives. Through boom times and bust, they’ve been each other’s support and constant companion. But at the tail end of a once-in-a-generation drought, both are on the precipice of earth-shattering change and transformation.
'Into the Shimmering World will beguile audiences with its gothic and dreamlike take on the Australian landscape, its lush and musical language, and its powerful exploration of the depths of our national psyche.
'STC Director of New Work and Artistic Development Paige Rattray (Do not go gentle...) will premiere this new Australian masterpiece in the glorious expanse of an extended Wharf 1 Theatre, in a production that is set to be a rich evocation of the mysteries of the natural world and a lyrical look at humanity’s changing relationship to it.
'What awaits Ray and Floss when the drought finally breaks?' (Production summary)
Presented by Sydney Theatre Company. Performed at Wharf Theatre 1, Walsh Bay, Sydney : 2 April - 19 May 2024.
Director: Paige Rattray.
Designer: David Fleischer.
Composer & Sound Designer: Clemence Williams.
Cast: Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels.
'The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal.'
'Drawing on the harsh realities of drought and flood, STC’s production of Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an exploration of silent shame and suffering.'
'Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.'
'Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.'
'Drawing on the harsh realities of drought and flood, STC’s production of Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an exploration of silent shame and suffering.'
'The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal.'
