Production still for "Cloudstreet". Benjamin Oakes as 'Fish'. Photographer: Pia Johnson
Cloudstreet (2019)
By Nick Enright & Justin Monjo
06 May 2019 – 16 June 2019 Merlyn Theatre
Adapted from the novel by Tim Winton
Australia Council for the Arts, Malthouse Theatre, Black Swan Theatre Company, Ned's, millboard,
Classic Theatre Co-Production Remount
The house at number one Cloud Street is a great continent where two damaged clans collide. The two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—are as contrasting as the Australia they inhabit. Teetotallers and tipplers, workhorses or wastrels, fate makers versus chance chasers. But really, they’re two sides of the same coin; one that was tossed during World War II and remained in motion for decades. The power of this staggering Australian saga is more haunting than the ghosts who speak out from the walls. It’s more elusive than the serial killer who prowls their neighbourhood. It’s transcendent, like the Lambs and the Pickles themselves, whose lives and loves live on today.
The production toured to His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, in 2020 (21 February - 15 March) as part of the Perth Festival.
★★★★½
"THEATRE AT ITS MOST RICH"
— Stage Noise
"EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THIS AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC TOLD AND RETOLD"
— The Age
"HILARIOUS AND HARROWING. AND STILL THE STORY OF US"
— Herald Sun
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Acknowledgements
Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company present Cloudstreet. Cloudstreet was first commissioned by Black Swan State Theatre Company and Company B Belvoir in 1998. Proudly supported by the Cloudstreet Giving Circle led by Maureen Wheeler AO & Tony Wheeler AO.
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