Dear Grif-friend,
Exactly 4 years in the past this week I first heard the distinctive phrases of Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie learn for the primary time by Sheridan Harbridge whereas sitting at Lee Lewis’s eating desk.
Jump ahead to the current day and Sheridan continues to so generously share her extraordinary and award-winning efficiency to sold-out audiences throughout Australia—after I final noticed her in Geelong she had simply accomplished her a hundred and fiftieth efficiency. It means a lot to Griffin that we will take this story and this name to arms to regional audiences with the identical form of intimacy of the premiere season on the SBW Stables Theatre season. It is strictly this type of new Australian writing that helps us to know who we’re as a nation, who we wish to turn out to be, and makes us take motion. If you’re in travelling distance of Wagga Wagga, Wodonga, or Toowoomba, don’t miss out.
At the identical time, Suzie is in New York, with the international manufacturing of Prima Facie presently in preview performances and about to open on Broadway. We’re so pleased with Suzie and all the pieces she has continues to attain (together with her current Olivier), and grateful that she nonetheless finds a valuable few hours within the wee hours of the morning to proceed working with us on her subsequent play Jailbaby that hits the SBW Stables Theatre stage in July.
Back in 2019, after that first week of rehearsals involving birthday cake at Lee’s home and vigorous conversations at Suzie’s, we moved to a rehearsal room at The University of Sydney. It’s the identical room that we’ve simply begun rehearsing Eloise Snape’s Pony. If you have been fortunate sufficient to see the wild spectacle of Sex Magick, you’ll definitely know that Griffin doesn’t simply do one-woman productions. But once we do, you’ll wish to come alongside. Briallen Clarke goes to have you ever hanging off each one among her phrases as she navigates life’s sudden hurdles with a riotous yeehaw and a rocking soundtrack.
While you look ahead to Pony to hit the stage, you may catch UFO for the following two weeks, created by re:group efficiency collective as the primary providing of Griffin Lookout in 2023. It’s an ingenious, resourceful and improbable piece of theatre that can make you ponder what you’ll do when your complete life is all of a sudden confronted by one thing bewildering and unknown—which we’re definitely all a bit acquainted with. You will even wish to keep properly after the home lights come as much as rise up shut and private with the set—it’s really a feast for the eyes (however I can’t say an excessive amount of extra!).
See you in our theatre quickly,
Khym x
Khym Scott
General Manager
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