PRODUCTION DETAILS

Season dates:
23-24 Jan, 2024 - Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood
6-21 Jan, 2024 - Everglades Gardens, Leura - SOLD OUT SEASON
Written by: William Shakespeare and Tom Middleton
Adapted by: Damien Ryan and Margaret Thanos
Director/Movement Director/Set Design: Margaret Thanos
Associate Director/Set Design: Jess Zlotnick
Cast: Matt Abotomey, Mike Booth, Lib Campbell, Eleni Cassimatis, Deborah Galanos, Jake Harvey, Lucy Lock, Ava Madden, Tasha O’Brien, Diego Retamales, Damien Ryan and David Soncin
Lighting Design: Ruth Lowry
Composer: Angus Evans
Costume Design: Aloma Barnes
Assistant Costume: Lily Moody
Fight Choreography: Diego Retamales
Stage Manager: Isabella Milkovitsch
Production Manager: Sorie Bangura
Producer: Rob Jago
Presented by: Sport for Jove

synopsis

Be honest now. Do your friends suck? Not always. But, come on, sometimes…? Do they secretly love it when you screw up, fall down, miss out, give in? Do you do it to them…have you? What’s it worth, any of it? Friendship? Loyalty? Love? If it were made of gold, what would it weigh? 

Well…Timon has it all…the cash, the cache, the companions, and a heart of gold. But that’ll never last, you know the story! And when it all goes up in smoke, so does everyone around him. One friend tried to warn him, but who listens to the pessimist? We all hate a misanthrope. 

But we hate ingratitude more. And nothing burns like betrayal. Alone and enraged, Timon strips himself bare, runs from the world, curses the city, and revels in exile. And wouldn’t you know it…digging in the dirt for a scrap of food…finds more wealth than he ever had before, just lying under the earth in a barren field. What will he do with it this time, being generous never paid off, so what’s the opposite??  

Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens is a black comedy dressed up as a Greek tragedy, an hilariously dark, joyfully brutal and very modern immorality tale. Dickens’ borrowed from it, Marx built a new world order out of it, our contemporary age sits squarely in its sights – and it gives you, the playgoer, an extraordinary opportunity… 

…to watch a Shakespeare play where you don’t know what happens next, have no idea how it ends, and will be surprised at every turn.