THREE WINTERS GREEN/BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Those familiar with Australian gay classic Three Winters Green may know its twentieth anniversary is looming and King Street Theatre are celebrating with a revival you won’t want to miss. For the first time in Sydney’s independent theatre history the company will perform in repertory, opening with Leonard Gershe’s sixties comedy Butterflies Are Free.
“We have some wonderful talent on board for these plays and it is going to be a very exciting three weeks,” says director Les Solomon.
Three Winter’s Green features a strong cast. Tom Sharah, fresh from his success in the reality TV series I Will Survive, joins Butterflies Are Free cast members James Wright, Emily Kennedy, and Matt Young; as well as WAAPA graduates Mat Verevis and Diana Perini, music theatre performer Brett O’Neill, and one of Australia’s most esteemed character actors, Gael Ballantyne.
Three Winters Green is written by Campion Decent and follows eight people, connected through family and friendship, as they contend with the impact of the aids crisis in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The play is a wonderful evocation of mood, time and place – its concerns as relevant today as they were twenty years ago. (RG)
Oct 17-Nov 3, King St Theatre, 644 King St, Newtown $20-32, kingstreettheatre.com.au
BY RHYS GARD
