A New Dark Comedy About Johannes Brahms By Neil Salvage Has Australian Premiere

Award-winning UK actors, Neil Salvage and Nicholas Collett ("The Six-Sided Man", "Spitfire Solo" and "Your Bard") team up with Adelaide's Stefanie Rossi for Australian premiere.

Johannes Brahms is attending a party to celebrate the first performance of his Violin Concerto - but his genius is overshadowed by his self-destructive ego. His friends are all there, but everyone is caught in a seething cauldron of passionate recriminations - and darkly hilarious outcomes. Everyone has their own agenda - the arthritic, embittered and ageing Clara Schumann from his past: jealous, unstable virtuoso Josef Joachim; pompous and waspish critic Hanslick - and gentle friend and disciple Von Herzogenberg. As the evening progresses and emotions turn on a sixpence, the play moves to its extraordinary conclusion fuelled by turbulent feelings and farcical misunderstandings. Laughing through our tears we are continually challenged with the questions: Why art? - and what price do we pay for it?

Oyster Creatives create new plays, fusing music, history and comedy, to tell compelling and darkly funny tales, exploring the passions and foibles of iconic characters.

Actor/Writer Neil Salvage, veteran of over 160 productions, working with the likes of Mike Leigh, Richard Eyre, Antonio Banderas, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent and others, stalwart of Royal National Theatre and London Old Vic Theatre Companies, saw his screenplay "Caught in the Act" on release in 2008.

Actor/Producer Nicholas Collett has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London's West End. Co-founder of Third Party (Peter Hall Award winners), writer/performer of Adelaide Fringe hits "Spitfire Solo" and "Your Bard" and British Arrow Best Actor award winner.

Actor Stefanie Rossi is well known to Adelaide audiences for her work with STARC productions. Her screen work includes The Flip Side, Youth On The March and Freemales.

Director Amy Bonsall is associate director of Bilimankhwe Theatre.

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