Written by Tim Winton
Music by Ian Grandage
Directed by Kate Cherry
Designed by Christina Smith
Featuring Alison White, Claire Lovering, Geoff Kelso, John Howard, Stuart Halutz and Kai Arbuckle and Callum Fletcher (alternating)
Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre
June 25 – July 17, 2011
Rising Water marks the arrival of the Heath Ledger Theatre, and Black Swan as its resident company. It’s a big-hearted entertainment with some striking assets, the most important of which hits you the moment you take your seat.Christina Smith has done the play, and the theatre space, a great service with her set; three boats bobbing – actually bobbing – in their pens, with deep blue gleaming water below and a transmuting Indian Ocean sky above.
It’s brilliant to look at, and a perfect platform on which director Cate Cherry can manage the story and her cast. Significantly, it's the first design that solves the problems of visual focus in the space and makes the great curving wood surfaces of the auditorium look right at home.
