'A car crash in the Central Desert. A broken man, about to leave his wife, who has a deep, dark secret of her own. Broken entwines the stories of three complex lives as they unfold on a single fateful night in the heart of the NT’s desert country.'
Source: Brown's Mart Theatre website. (Sighted: 7/12/2015)
Produced by Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin, between 17 and 25 March 2015.
Sydney premiere at the Eternity Playhouse, 2 -28 August 2016.
Director: Gail Evans.
Cast: Matt Edgerton, Rosealee Pearson, and Ciella Williams.
Produced by Darlinghurst Theatre Company, 29 July and 28 August 2016.
Director: Matt Edgerton.
'This chapter considers how the perennial Australian concern of how to capture and contain the distinctive national landscape on stage has manifested in the period between 2007 and 2020. Analyses of three plays follow: Broken (2016) by Mary Anne Butler, Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree (2016), and Leah Purcell’s adaptation of the iconic Henry Lawson short story The Drover’s Wife (2017). Across each case study, we are also drawn to the distinctive language that is deployed in these rural and regional settings from playwrights deeply familiar with the country they’re evoking on stage: a process of ‘writing from within.’ A duologue between Butler and Cerini follows, which takes up the question of what it means to write from the regions in contemporary Australia.' (Publication abstract)
'One of the Northern Territory’s most acclaimed theatre productions is one step closer to the big screen.'
'Territory production company Brindle Films received $20,000 in funding from Screen Territory to produce award winning play Broken into a feature film. ...'
