A poetic Australian story of love, renewal and living on the land, starring Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels

By Angus Cerini
Directed by Paige Rattray

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?

 Approx. duration 90 mins (no interval)
Content Infrequent strong language, references to self-harm, and gunshots.

 DATE: Saturday 13 April 2024

TIME: 7.30pm

VENUE: Wharf 1 Theatre (Sydney Theatre Company), Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney 2000
Theatre Group Co-Convenors, Cherry Spoor and Judith Nguyen, have purchased seats P11 and P12

To buy your tickets contact the Box Office on 9250 177 or email [email protected]

PRE-THEATRE DRINKS/SNACKS (Optional): There will also be the option to join us for pre-theatre drinks/small food or boards at The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf. Please advise if you are interested in participating.

RSVP TO: Judith Nguyen at [email protected]

RSVP BY: 5 April 2024 as we will need to book a table

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