Andrew Bovell’s electrifying 1996 play, Speaking in Tongues, inspired the award-winning 2001 film Lantana. In the ingeniously constructed drama, four actors play nine characters, connected through a complex web of stories, at the heart of which is the disappearance of a woman whose car breaks down late at night. Exploring themes of betrayal, love, guilt and fear, the plot moves back and forth as it gradually reveals the connections between seemingly unrelated people and incidents, as well as what happened to the missing woman. Humphrey Bower directs.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

From the writer of our 2023 award-winning production of Things I Know To Be True comes a masterfully interconnected drama about the relationships between lovers, strangers, and the infinite ways people are entangled.

Pete is married to Jane. Leon is married to Sonja. One night, Pete meets Sonja in a bar, and they go back to a cheap hotel. By chance, on the same night, Leon and Jane do the same.

One couple goes through with it. The other doesn’t.

A lonely man pines for the love of his life who moved on decades ago.

A woman disappears, leaving just a stiletto and a neighbour as the prime suspect. Her husband doesn’t answer the phone.

Nine lives weave together in Bovell’s electrifying play about love, desire, suspicion, and betrayal.