20.03.24
Expensive Grif-friend,
I hope you’re having splendid weeks, revelling within the sunshine, studying an important e book and delving deep into the Kate Middlegate saga.
As I’m certain you understand, a number of the finest tales are available threes: The Three Musketeers, The Lord of the Rings, The Starvation Video games and naturally, The Lewis Trilogy.
I had the honour of manufacturing The Lewis Trilogy as my final gig as Griffin’s Senior Producer. I’m so pleased with the present and the way we made it.
In fact, I’m biased, however I feel we now have achieved one thing outstanding. We’ve got suffused the historical past of Australian theatre with its vivid, rigorous future. In doing this, not solely have we given our audiences an unparalleled theatrical expertise to ship the Stables off with, however we’re mirroring Griffin’s transition from the previous to new constructing.
Whereas we had been programming 2024, our Creative group mentioned at size the necessity for the Trilogy to respect the evolving wants of communities represented and to acknowledge the reality of the occasions that the performs are set in. We additionally wanted the exhibits (which ran in full draft at about 2.5 hours every) to be extra like 1.5 hours, to suit inside a day of theatre. Louis Nowra was on board from the get go, his generosity and creativity have been his calling card. Declan Greene, who each directed and tailored the performs with Louis, additionally labored with Bayley Turner, an inclusion skilled, and Christopher Bryant, a incapacity advisor, and the outstanding Affiliate Director Daley Rangi all through the method. Once I was in these rooms, I appeared on in awe as this unimaginable group of individuals sculpted a piece for each our previous and current.
Because the avalanche of 5 star critiques got here out, our telephones have been ringing sizzling with requests to e book one play at a time. So, final week, we did it! Now you can seize a ticket to see your Trilogy present of alternative—see Paul Capsis break the Stables excessive kick report because the eccentric native put up man in Summer season of the Aliens, see Ursula Yovich put on a Tupperware hat because the tender and hilarious Cherry in Così, and be guided round Woolloomooloo by Thomas Campbell’s irrepressible Cass in This A lot is True.
I might get in fast—they’re promoting faster than a high-end sizzling cross bun on Easter weekend.
Whereas I really like the accessibility of particular person play tickets, I might nonetheless encourage the Trilogy full-day expertise. It’s a day of immersion in Kings Cross; a espresso at Latteria earlier than heading to your Summer season of the Aliens matinee, then a cheese board within the Stables lobby by Penny’s Cheese Store with a tart orange wine earlier than Così. Then you possibly can stroll via the Cross in your approach to dinner with considered one of our many restaurant companions, taking within the ‘Strip on the Strip’ bronze road plaques that commemorate the world’s historical past as you go.
I hope that you just see our Trilogy, and in doing so expertise a second of Sydney theatre historical past.
See you in a lobby quickly,
Leila x
Leila Enright
Senior Producer
