Written by Rebecca Gilman
Directed
by Adam Mitchell
Designed
by Fiona Bruce
Lighting
design by Trent Suidgeest
Sound
design by Ben Collins
Featuring
James Hagan, Ben O’Toole, Myles Pollard, Whitney Richards, Helen Searle, Steve
Turner and Alison van Reeken
Heath Ledger
Theatre, State Theatre Centre
Until September 30
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| Alison van Reeken and Myles Pollard |
The opening tableaux of the American playwright
Rebecca Gilman’s gripping, malevolent Boy Gets Girl is a striking display of
the strengths of director Adam Mitchell’s production.
We find Theresa Bedell (Alison van Reeken), a New York
City magazine feature writer, in a set (superbly designed by Fiona Bruce) that
is an abstract exercise in perspective, diminishing up a raked stage and down
lines of massive re-enforced concrete sections towards a vanishing point
obscured in shadows. There’s music, and traffic, but somewhere, close by,
Theresa thinks she hears a noise, senses a presence; and we do too. She walks
warily upstage towards the darkness, peering into it for the intruder. The
stage fades to black. Welcome to her nightmare.
