Performance Dates
10 Sept 2003 – 20 Sept 2003September 2003
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Details
- Playwright
- Ron Elisha
- Director
- David Meadows
AddressBlue Room Theatre, James Street, Northbridge.
The Naked Emotion Ensemble, by exclusive arrangement with leading Australian playwright Ron Elisha, proudly presents the 20th anniversary production of one of his most acclaimed plays, the Australian classic, TWO, at the Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge.
Since its world premiere in 1983, at PerthÂ’s Hole in the Wall Theatre, ElishaÂ’s dazzling chamber drama has come to be regarded as one of the most important Australian plays of our time.
It is 1948, and Rabbi Chaim Levi (Joe Isaia), a survivor of Auschwitz, is living in a filthy cellar, teaching music to the “blue-eyed sons of ham-fisted butchers”. Into his life comes Anna (Tracey Woolrych), a woman who wants him to teach her Hebrew, so that she can go to Palestine and help establish “a land for the Jews”.
The lesson begins, and as Anna learns the language, and its symbolic significance to Jewish life, each of them learns to trust again. But both of these survivors have a dark secret to reveal. Each needs to heal, and to move forward, but before either of them can safely embrace the future, they must first deal with the demons that lurk in the past.
TWO is a play about good and evil; not whether good will triumph or evil prevail, but about the concept of both forming a single inseparable entity. With energy, intensity, and a little humour, the play examines some fundamental moral concepts as Anna and Chaim together study music, the nature of language, and humankind.
TWO received the 1984 AWGIE (Australian WriterÂ’s Guild) award for Best Stage Play. The production is directed by David Meadows (The Elephant Man; Mozart & Salieri).
Since its world premiere in 1983, at PerthÂ’s Hole in the Wall Theatre, ElishaÂ’s dazzling chamber drama has come to be regarded as one of the most important Australian plays of our time.
It is 1948, and Rabbi Chaim Levi (Joe Isaia), a survivor of Auschwitz, is living in a filthy cellar, teaching music to the “blue-eyed sons of ham-fisted butchers”. Into his life comes Anna (Tracey Woolrych), a woman who wants him to teach her Hebrew, so that she can go to Palestine and help establish “a land for the Jews”.
The lesson begins, and as Anna learns the language, and its symbolic significance to Jewish life, each of them learns to trust again. But both of these survivors have a dark secret to reveal. Each needs to heal, and to move forward, but before either of them can safely embrace the future, they must first deal with the demons that lurk in the past.
TWO is a play about good and evil; not whether good will triumph or evil prevail, but about the concept of both forming a single inseparable entity. With energy, intensity, and a little humour, the play examines some fundamental moral concepts as Anna and Chaim together study music, the nature of language, and humankind.
TWO received the 1984 AWGIE (Australian WriterÂ’s Guild) award for Best Stage Play. The production is directed by David Meadows (The Elephant Man; Mozart & Salieri).
Bookings
This production has concluded. Contact details are not available for past events.