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Summer of the Aliens
By Louis Nowra
Directed by David Runnalls
SYNOPSIS:
The year is 1962 and the world is worrying about the Cuban missile crisis, except for Lewis, a youth on the cusp of manhood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission suburb. He is preoccupied with flying saucers, much to the disgust of his friend Brian who can think only of losing his virginity.
The play centres on relationships, especially the relationship between 14 year old Lewis and 14 year old Dulcie. It is through Dulcie that Lewis begins to understand that the struggle to be adult is the struggle to understand the world around him.
Summer of the Aliens is a vivid and amusing evocation of a family and a neighbourhood whose increasingly strange behaviour Lewis is forced to interpret in the only way he can… the aliens must be among us!
SEASON:
5 – 8 & 12 – 14 September 2019
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Performances at 8pm
Sunday Matinee at 2pm
9 Bradshaw Street, Essendon
(Entry off Buckley St)
CAST
Lewis – Ben Smalley
Dulcie – Marniesa Martinez
Narrator – Donal Taylor
Norma – Sonja Prater
Grandma – Sandy Green
Brian – Lochie Curran
Eric – Darren Gregor
Bev – Jess Gregor
Uncle Richard and Stan – Andrew Pitt
Mrs. Irvin – Angela Trakula
Mr. Pisano – Gilbert Gauci
Beatrice – Lauren Preston
Japanese Woman – TBC
TICKET PRICES
Ticket prices: $20 adult; $18 Concession
CASH ONLY Payments at the door
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