Anglesea Performing Arts is bringing the award-winning play to Platform Arts in Geelong this February.
Following a successful run at the Anglesea Memorial Hall last year, Anglesea Performing Arts is bringing the staging of Angus Cerini’s Gothic Australian masterpiece The Bleeding Tree to the Geelong this February, shining a light on powerful social issues.
A theatrical experience that will draw you in, hold you captive and make you question your role in society as the bystander, The Bleeding Tree will take over Platform Arts for four special performances from Wednesday, February 22 until Saturday, February 25.
The Bleeding Tree performances at Platform Arts
- Wednesday, February 22 at 7:30pm
- Thursday, February 23 at 7:30pm
- Friday, February 24 at 7:30pm
- Saturday, February at 7:30pm
Stay up to date with what’s happening on the stage in and around the region here.
The multi-award-winning play is a powerful roaring rampage of revenge in a dusty town in rural Australia that follows a mother and her two daughters after they shoot dead their abusive husband and father. The only issue now is disposing of the body.
Triggered into thrilling motion by an act of revenge, The Bleeding Tree unravels a complex, brutal and searing examination of abuse, power and control, resulting in a rude, rhythmical, heartbreaking and darkly funny performance. Imagine a murder ballad blown up for the stage, set against a deceptively deadly Aussie backdrop, with three fierce females fighting back.
Taking on Cerini’s poetic and dark script, the complex and daring production will come to life under the masterful direction of Iris Walshe-Howling and will see three talented and highly experienced actors, Lina Libroaperto, Julie Fryman and Stacey Carmichael, take on the roles as the three fierce and complex women. With an original and haunting score by Kirstin Honey, this piece is sure to have you captivated.
“I first saw this play in Sydney and fell in love with its powerful, raw beauty and brave reversal of gender violence,” say Walshe-Howling.
“It attracted and repelled me simultaneously but the gut-wrenching imagery created by Angus Cerini’s incisive poetic use of the Australian vernacular hit me straight in the guts. It challenged all my values as this gruesome, carnal act perpetrated by the three women unfolded, permeating all my senses scene by scene. This piece of theatre is a contrapuntal response to the actual horrific family violence scenarios we are accustomed to confronting each day in our media, which still challenge the survival of women all over the world.”
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The Bleeding Tree is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most successful and awarded plays of the decade. Critics have hailed Angus Cerini’s morbidly hilarious fable as “powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating” theatre “unhesitatingly recommended”. Winner of the Griffin Award, Helpmann for Best Play, and an AWGIE, this is vital, confronting and urgent theatre.
You’ll be able to see Angus Cerini’s roaring rampage of revenge brought to the stage in Geelong this February.
Tickets can be purchased here. Find out more about the production here.
