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The Street Theatre: This Rough Magic By Helen Machalias
11 November 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:50 pm AEDT
It begins, as always, with a storm. Sit still and hear of my sea-sorrow.
A chaotic storm erupts. A disastrous shipwreck ensues. Refugees Prospero, Miranda and Ariel are washed ashore on Christmas Island seeking asylum in Australia. But this side of the story is yet to be seen.
Award-winning playwright of ideas Helen Machalias returns to The Street with another work of social commentary, reimagining Shakespeare’s The Tempest for our time in This Rough Magic – an exhilarating epic of power reckoning, survival and the cost of pursuing the promise of a better life.
Ambitious and thrilling This Rough Magic is a rich theatrical conversation with Shakespeare’s The Tempest, epic in scale and full of mysticism and longing. Not to be missed.
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