Shivered by Philip Ridley
Theatre
May 7 - 30, 2015
PACT Theatre 107 Railway Parade
Erskineville, NSW
Website: http://www.madmarchtheatreco.com/
Description
A young couple are moving into their new home.A soldier is being held hostage.
Two boys are searching for monsters.
All these events are connected by both family and time … but what story can be told when family and time are broken?
Covering the space of 12 years, Shivered unpicks the story of two families and then re-weaves it into something new and startling.
Seven people, one war, a derelict car plant and mysterious lights in the sky … all come together in the Draylingstowe, Essex, where the view from green hills once offered hope and prosperity for all.
Shivered is about fragmentation, about the break-up of families, friendships and community, and the shattering of certainties between reality and fantasy. Seventeen brilliantly linked scenes are performed non-chronologically, moving back and forth in time, painfully piecing together the shards of glass.
“Ridley is at his imaginative best in what is arguably
his most accessible adult-play to date” What’s On Stage
"Ridley is a visionary." 'Rolling Stone Magazine.
"A major literary talent who pulls new poetry out of the literary jungle." The Independent