Category: Griffin Theatre

The Griffin Theatre premiered WICKED SISTERS sometime in the early 2000’s and this is a revival of the work for the same company. This play was written in 2002. Alma de Groen is one of those great writers of plays. Alma de Groen was born in New Zealand but pursued a life as a playwright in Australia. Her work, contextually, came forth in the so-called era of the Second Wave Feminism. This play, unusually, has a cast of four women, who being over the age of fifty are the surviving elders of a niche university clique who were, supposedly, friends…

CUSP is a new work by Mary Anne Butler. It has taken three years of discussion, development and rehearsal which included two weeks of that development – one week in Darwin and another in Sydney – with the writer, director and actors to find manifestation in a theatre. It is a quasi-poetic play that uses an abundance of ‘lists’ to achieve this – true to our Elizabethan and Jacobean forebears and their example. We meet three actors playing three young Northern Territorians at the cusp of having their life cycles moving from the teenage metamorphic to the young adult evolution.…

PRIME FACIE, is a one hundred-minute, one person play, by Suzie Miller. It won the Griffin Award for Best Play in 2018. Tessa is a feisty young woman from a working class background who finds her talent in the practice of Law. In the journey of this play Tessa experiences what it is to be on both sides of the incidents of the court system. It becomes a devastating revelation. Suzie Miller is a writer who has practised in Law to subsidise her first love: writing. Many a writer, especially the Australian writer, with this country’s limited opportunities to be…

LOVE AND ANGER, is back after a one night stint in the Griffin Bach Festival last April. Betty Grumble, a subversive burlesque artist from the fringe of Sydney theatre activism is, spectacularly, back. With the 1967 text, THE SCUM MANIFESTO, by Valerie Solanas – a radical feminist work – in her hands and quoted from, serving as a reference to give this work, well spine, Betty uses her body in a ‘ in-yer-face’ reveal to parody, satirise, mens’ historic objectification of women and to re-claim the sexual normality of the female. She is fearless (courageous) in the method of her…

LOVE AND ANGER, is vividly described in Griffin’s publicity as a: Womanifesto, call to arms, and long hard kiss from surreal showgurl, obscene beauty queen and sex clown, Betty Grumble. Witness her ecosexually charged riot of dancing dissent, disco and deep push back-ery, where pleasure is a radical act and the body a bloody love letter. Prequel, sequel or freak-quel the head-spinning LOVE AND ANGER is a ‘reclamation of the feminine spirit in all of its juices, jiggles and joy. The last act of the Griffin Bach Festival, late night: 10pm (more like 10.20), is the spectacular underground artist that…

Griffin Theatre as part of the Batch Festival, presents BLUEBERRY PLAY, by Ang Collins, in the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross. 18 -21 April. BLUEBERRY PLAY, by Ang Collins, is a one-act monologue, shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Award. The monologue explores the highs and lows of being a teenage girl in a small town with two important men in her life. Her dad, Jim, is leaving her life – her family’s life – he is dying of cancer, in a very public and challenging way. Jono, a prospective boyfriend, just turning 18, is entering her life – she has…