Sydney Theatre Company - The Serpents Teeth

Multi-award winning writer Daniel Keene is the most performed Australian playwright outside of the country. During the thirty years in which he has written for the theatre, his plays have earned critical praise and sell-out seasons in theatres and at festivals in Australia, the United States and across Europe. In April and May, the STC Actors Company will perform two one-act plays by Daniel Keene, in the Drama Theatre of the Sydney Opera House.

The first play – Citizens – is set at the dividing wall of an unnamed war-torn country. Over the course of the play, the fragility and nobility of the human spirit at its most vulnerable is carefully probed and laid bare. Citizens will be directed by STC Actors Company member Pamela Rabe, making her directing debut for Sydney Theatre Company.

The second play – Soldiers – has been commissioned for the STC Actors Company as a companion piece to Citizens. Set in an echoing Air Force hangar, family members gather to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends lost in an unspecified conflict abroad. Soldiers will be directed by Tim Maddock, who has previously collaborated with Daniel Keene on The Architect's Walk and Because You Are Mine.

"Daniel Keene is a dangerous playwright... he works right on the moral edge." The Sydney Morning Herald.

With Brandon Burke, Peter Carroll, Marta Dusseldorp, Eden Falk, John Gaden, Steve Le Marquand, Ewen Leslie, Hayley McElhinney, Amber McMahon, Luke Mullins, Pamela Rabe, Emily Russell.

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