Red Sky Morning

RED SKY MORNING
By Tom Holloway

A Red Stitch Production

Directed by Sam Strong; Designer Peter Mumford; Lighting Designer Danny Pettingill;
Sound Designer Kelly Ryall

Tom Holloway's award winning Red Sky Morning is a very warm, humorous and ultimately heartbreaking play that explores identity, dislocation and the need to connect told through the experience of a father, a mother and their teenage daughter in the course of one life-changing day. 

This surprising, seriously inventive new play is a funny, moving and sometimes shocking ride through the interiors of the mind.  The play confronts head on the impact of depression and isolation in regional Australia.  Red Sky Morning's form is as challenging as its content.

The play continues Holloway's trademark combination of linguisting experimentation and a robust Australian vernacular.  An extended development process has enabled the writer to push the envelope of theatrical communication - to experiment with a musical, overlapping form ideally suited to our noise filled, attention pulling world.

"PLAY OF THE YEAR...succeeds on every level...Tom Holloway's script is tight - hilarious and frequently heart-rending - and performances from David Whiteley, Sarah Sutherland and Erin Dewar are pitch perfect...a complex, urgent production that deserves to live on."  John Bailey, Sunday Age

"Brilliant...Red Sky Morning is the product of a year of readings, workshops and rewrites.  And it shows.  It hits the stage sprinting.  It's fully formed, impressively set and finely tuned."  Chris Boyd, Herald Sun

Audience Advice: Strong language and sexual references