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Thursday 20 – 23 March 2013

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COLLECTED WORKS AUSTRALIA 2013
SEASON TICKET PACKAGES: Save up to $10 per show when you purchase a season ticket of four shows or more. Season ticket holders also receive special offers during the year, entry into gala opening night events and have priority access to Take Part forums and talks. For more information about Season 2013 and how to become a season ticket holder click here

“For half the world the day begins, for half the world the day ends. Here.” Excerpt from Thursday by Bryony Lavery

From Brink Productions, the makers of the acclaimed When The Rain Stops Falling, and English Touring Theatre, one of the UK’s leading production companies, comes a powerful new international co-production.

Taking reference from the remarkable story of Adelaide woman Gill Hicks, who lost her legs in the London 2005 bombings, Thursday explores the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

The South Australian gift to Collected Works: Australia, this beautiful and fragmented collaboration is poetic and ambitious in form and content.

It layers dreams with reality, compassion with devastation and identity with loss, to build a deeply woven picture of humanity.

How can people be at once so needlessly violent, yet also capable of incredible bravery and compassion even toward complete strangers? Thursday beautifully, and with delicate skill, sets out to make sense of this contradiction.

WRITER
Bryony Lavery

DIRECTOR/DRAMATURG
Chris Drummond

DESIGNER
Dan Potra

COMPOSER
Quentin Grant

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Colin Grenfell

PRODUCERS
Kay Jamieson (Aust) and
Jane Claire (UK)

Featuring Paul Blackwell, Emma Handy, Martin Huston, Lena Kaur, Tom Mothersdale, Kate Mulvany, Nathan O'Keefe, Deidre Rubenstein, Rochenda Sandall and musician Quentin Grant

This season has been generously supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts SA.

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