MEDIA
THREE DOG NIGHT
By Peter Goldsworthy
Adapted by Petra Kalive
Directed by Andrew Gray
15th - 25th May 2008
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Two Blue Cherries is proud to present its debut show Three Dog Night, a stunning collaboration between award-winning novelist Peter Goldsworthy and hot new talent, actor/writer Petra Kalive.
Based on the award-winning Peter Goldsworthy novel of the same name, Three Dog Night, questions the philosophical challenge of learning how to die and Australia’s conflicted multi-culture. It is an ironic, restless and at times confronting work about the fathomless human capacity for self-deception; about the means we invent to hide our true feelings.
Three Dog Night is a love triangle. The two male characters represent poles of Australia's conflicted culture. The story’s tension created by the abrasive, competitive relationship between the two men - one has distanced himself from his origins by pursuing a career in England; the other has travelled deeper into Australia's heart, living with remote Indigenous communities.
This modern day tragedy explores the underlying impulses that shape human behaviour via an Aboriginal Dreaming. Indigenous spirituality and storytelling are intrinsic to this story's exploration of the clinical conviction that compassion is the means to liberation.
Beginning in the Adelaide Hills, Three Dog Night journeys to the vast expanse of the Australian outback and takes us deep into the desert of the human soul.
With a stellar cast, Tim Stitz (Asylum – La Mama 2007), Phil McInnes (OT – Malthouse 2006) and Petra Kalive (Underbelly) and under the expert direction of Andrew Gray (The Winterling – Red Stitch 2007), Three Dog Night promises to be the hottest piece of theatre this year.
“Intense and brilliant… Three Dog Night is a work of concentrated formal elegance that confirms Goldsworthy's status as one of Australia's best.”
James Ley, Sydney Morning Herald