Directed by
Kate Cherry
Designed by
Zoe Atkinson
With Tom E.
Lewis, Helen Morse, George Shevstov and Pauline Whyman
Heath
Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre
July 31 –
August 18, 2012
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| George Shevstov and Helen Morse |
In Tim
Winton’s Signs of Life we are re-introduced to two of the central characters in
his 2002 novel, Dirt Music; Georgiana Jutland (Helen Morse), whose escape from
dress circle Perth, and then from the boss cocky fisherman she’d taken up with,
and Luther Fox (George Shevstov) the craypot poacher and ne’er-do-well she
absconds with and for.
The Moore
River runs through the play like it does the property. It hasn’t rained for
five years, and everything, the riverbed, the olive trees, the birds, the wild
dogs and Georgie herself, are dry as bone dust.
As
we anxiously wait for soaking rain right here, right now, in Perth, it’s easy
to empathise when a character says “I don’t think it will ever rain. This is
it. The end.”
Link here to the complete review in The West Australian
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