Transparency headed for Sydney's west
Following an acclaimed production at the Belfast Festival with the prestigious Ransom Theatre Company, Transparency is headed to Sydney’s west for a season at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta.
Following an acclaimed production at the Belfast Festival with the prestigious Ransom Theatre Company, Transparency is headed to Sydney’s west for a season at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta.
Written by Suzie Miller, a graduate of NIDA’s Playwrights’ Studio, the play is an award-winner and has been widely acclaimed.
In the countdown to Christmas the disappearance of a young girl rocks a small town community instigating a chain of events that will alter the lives of everyone involved. For Simon, the world he has built here was a second chance; though still ridden with guilt, in the eyes of the law he has paid for his mistake. Given a new identity, new history and a single confidante, he has successfully buried the truth of his past; even from Jessica, the woman he loves. Will events force Simon to step outside the prison his new identity has become and does the community have the right to know his true identity?
Powerfully written, thought-provoking and deeply moving, Transparency was the recipient of the Kit Denton award for brave and courageous writing in 2009. Following an acclaimed production at the Belfast Festival with the prestigious Ransom Theatre Company, Transparency toured the UK and London where its subject matter provoked much debate.
“Riverside has a very strong relationship with Suzie Miller. In 2008 we produced her powerful play All The Blood and All The Water with great success and were proud to support the early development of Transparency through Breakout which enabled it to go on to acclaim in the UK. Now we are delighted to bring this remarkable thriller to Sydney audiences in a first class premiere production,” said Riverside Producer, Camilla Rountree.
Suzie Miller is a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights’ Studio, has a Masters Degree in Theatre from UNSW and a Masters Degree in Law from UNSW.
The National Theatre in London developed her work Transparency while on attachment there in 2009. She was also on attachment in 2009 with Ransom Theatre, Northern Ireland. Transparency, written under the Kit Denton Fellowship, premiered with Ransom Theatre in Belfast in 2009 and toured Northern Ireland and the UK.
In 2008 Reasonable Doubt was produced at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the NY Fringe Festival and won the NY Festival’s Excellence Playwriting Award.
The play opens on September 20.
