Happy New
From: Tuesday, 31st January 2012
To: Friday, 23 March 2012
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Synopsis
"People don't really accept chickens. Which is wrong, 'cos we invented the pecking order." The Australian outback. Danny and Lyle were abandoned by their mother in the chicken coop. Discovered after several months, surrounded only by hens, feathers, pecking and clawing, they are taken into care. Over the years since then, they've become media celebrities. Sultry TV journo Pru has entered their lives. But now society is bored with them. It's New Year's Eve. Tomorrow Danny and Lyle must leave care and step out into the world alone for the first time. But are childhood traumas coming home to roost? What's Pru hatching? Why is she egging them on? Will they ever eat Nando's again? And of course, which came first?
Our Review:
2 February 2012
Brendan Cowell is regarded as a bit of a star among stage writers, bringing a dark, surreal and emotionally insightful angle to themes of family relationships and what it means to be human. His characters speak in poetic, lyrical prose, interspersed with bouts of swearing, highlighting the dichotomy of human life between the base and the elevated.
This approach is reflected in Happy New, which sees Australian brothers Danny and Lyle trying to escape the "coop" that is the flat provided for them by journalist, Pru.
The two boys were abandoned by their mother when they were children, locked in the chicken coop for months with nothing but the chickens to sustain them. They come to empathise with their food, adopting chicken-like mannerisms and accepting that there is a "pecking order" that must be obeyed. But who is top chicken? Can these damaged individuals fly the coup and survive in the outside corporate world?
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Adel Zsemberi - 16 March 2012:
I saw last night's performance and I agree that all 3 actors were fantastic! Plot is a bit twisted though. Well done Alfie Echon, Ed Birch and Helen Duff!...
Creative
Brendan Cowell (Author)
Inside Intelligence (in association with The Old Red Lion Theatre) (Company)
Robert Shaw (Director)
Claire Lyth (Design)
Richard Williamson (Lighting)
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