Good Works
Image: Anthony, Toni, Iain, Lucy, Taylor, Jamie, Stephen
Photo: Helen White
Good Works is an emotionally powerful and exquisitely told Australian story by acclaimed playwright, Nick Enright. This November, watch as the Darlinghurst Theatre Company bring this compelling drama to life at Eternity Playhouse.
Renowned theatre director Iain Sinclair has expressed that it has been a delight to work with a script written by Enright, who is considered to be a master of the theatrical world.
“It’s a really structurally ambitious piece,” Sinclair explained. “There are times where there is anything up to four time-zones happening at one time, but they’re all kind of united by a dramatic energy or an emotional energy.”
Good Works follows the pasts and presents of two boyhood friends, and travels between several decades and generations in order to explore the family histories that have helped to shaped them as men. It presents a moving story that deals with the timeless issues of identity labelling.
“I think so many of Nick Enright’s plays deal with people getting pegged, people getting their identities handed to them, and the expectation of them behaving in a certain way,” said Sinclair. “…And Good Works is a very adult investigation of that.”
The play will offer the audience a complex ride, with an underlying emotional through-line, giving an insight of what it’s like to be different while growing up in a small country town. (NB)
Nov 5–29. Eternity Playhouse, 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst. $38-$45. Tickets & info: darlinghursttheatre.com
BY NYSSA BOOTH
