FAMDA’s PLANNED PRODUCTION OF
SPEAKING IN TONGUES …………………………………………………..
HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
FAMDA would like to hear from
anyone willing to direct a play for
FAMDA to stage in May – July 2010
Interested?
Contact: Max Hastings 5682 2293 or mjh [@] dcsi.net.au
Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell
The Australian play leading to the movie, Lantana.
4 actors [2m /2f] playing 9 roles
Directed by Max Hastings to be staged 14 – 22 May 2010
Speaking in Tongues is an intriguing drama by the Australian playwright, Andrew Bovell, whose most recent play, When the Rain Stops Falling, was one of the hits of the 2009 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, when staged by Brink Productions in association with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
In both Speaking in Tongues and When the Rain Stops Falling characters reappear, others disappear. Stories told in one part take on significance in another part.
The plays are driven by a sense of mystery. The answers are there but they are elusive.
The plot doesn’t always move forward – it leaps sideways and backwards, often travelling back to moments already seen but revealing them from a different angle.
Speaking in Tongues was written by Andrew Bovell and first staged in 1998.
Bovell later adapted his own storyline as the screenplay for the 2001 psychological thriller, Lantana, which starred Anthony LaPaglia and Kerry Armstrong with Rachel Blake, Geoffrey Rush, Leah Purcell and Barbara Hershey.
In Speaking in Tongues two married couples switch partners for the night. Who will have the courage for betrayal? Who will walk away?
A man weeps in the street after realising that his only love, long vanished, is alive and well – and has completely forgotten him.
A woman disappears on a lonely road, late at night, leaving ominous last words on her absent husband’s answering machine; at the same time, a man covered in blood comes home and throws a woman’s shoe into an adjacent empty lot.
There are nine characters in the storyline of Speaking in Tongues, but Bovell’s play dictates that they are played by four actors – two males and two females.
FAMDA is taking on the challenge of presenting this fascinating theatrical piece by staging Speaking in Tongues i14 – 22 May 2010 under the direction of Max Hastings.
FAMDA’s PRODUCTION OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES …… HAS BEEN CANCELLED
