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Into the Shimmering World single work   drama   - 90 mins
Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Into the Shimmering World
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'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)

Production Details

  • 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.

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Works about this Work

Theatre Review : Into the Shimmering World, Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatres Michael Balfour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal.' 

STC’s Into the Shimmering World Explores the Emotional Ruins Caused by Natural Disaster Cassie Tongue , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'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.'

Into the Shimmering World Review – Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong Star in a Future Australian Classic Steve Dow , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 7 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama
‘Strong Theatre with Unwavering Precision’ : Into the Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean to Be Good? Ian Maxwell , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'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.'

‘Strong Theatre with Unwavering Precision’ : Into the Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean to Be Good? Ian Maxwell , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'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.'

Into the Shimmering World Review – Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong Star in a Future Australian Classic Steve Dow , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 7 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama
STC’s Into the Shimmering World Explores the Emotional Ruins Caused by Natural Disaster Cassie Tongue , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'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.'

Theatre Review : Into the Shimmering World, Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatres Michael Balfour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , April 2024;

— Review of Into the Shimmering World Angus Cerini , 2024 single work drama

'The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal.' 

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