Claire Lovering's RIVER to Run Feb 23-28 as Part of Adelaide Fringe

Following critical acclaim for her sold-out Sydney season and extended, sold-out Perth season of her self-penned one-woman show River, WAAPA acting graduate Claire Lovering brings her hit show to Adelaide for its SA Premiere at The Bakehouse Theatre as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2015. The production will run 23rd - 28th February 15 in the Studio.

Lovering, who won both the coveted Leslie Anderson and Sally Burton Awards in her final year at WAAPA, has recently appeared in Channel 10's Wonderland and will appear in the Warner Brothers feature, San Andreas starring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) that will premiere in May 2015. Regularly treading the boards with Black Swan State Theatre Company since graduating in 2010, in 2014 Lovering impressed Melbourne critics in her role as Elaine Robinson in the West End production of The Graduate, starring opposite Jerry Hall; one reviewer stated that more than any other cast member, Claire Lovering, as Elaine, found a diamond-hard truth inside her insubstantial character. (Chris Boyd, The Australian)

River is a bitter sweet character monologue inspired by the loneliness and anonymity Lovering experienced when she first moved from Perth to Sydney four years ago. It has resonated with audiences of all ages and proved to be a hit of Perth's FRINGE WORLD this month with additional performances of the extended season selling out within 24 hours of going on sale.

I like to relax by making Aluminium Foil Art. I sell my wares outside Woolworths on Saturday mornings. I set up a table next to the guys selling life saving raffle tickets. They keep telling me to move on because I detract from their business but I think I enhance it.

This is River. She knows how to make the perfect vegemite toast. When she's not selling her aluminium foil art outside Woolworths she writes Google poetry and attends stranger's funerals. Written and performed by Claire Lovering, River is the story of a young woman, an old man and the magic of a wish chip.

Written and performed by Claire Lovering, RIVER is workshopped and dramaturged by Sarah Giles, with composition and sound design by Nate Edmondson, lighting design by Benjamin Brockman and design consultant Alicia Clements.

The production has already been identified as one to watch in Adelaide and been selected to receive support from the Bank of South Australia's ticket subsidy program; Bank SA Support Acts.

Book tickets here: http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/river/9a7d8a75-2a90-45ed-a25e-202346f27e53

About Claire Lovering - Claire is an actor and writer who graduated from WAAPA in 2010 and was awarded the Leslie Anderson Award for Most Outstanding Acting Showcase and the Sally Burton Award for Best Female Performance of a Classical Text that same year.

Immediately after graduating Claire made her professional theatre debut in Tim Winton's first play, Rising Water, for Melbourne Theatre Company and the Black Swan State Theatre Company for which she received a Best Newcomer nomination at the WA Equity Guild Awards. She has also starred in Day One, A hotel, Evening and The Damned for Black Swan State Theatre Company and in the premiere production of David Williamson's Managing Carmen for the Queensland Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company; directed by Wesley Enoch. Most recently, Claire played Elaine Robinson opposite Jerry Hall in the West End production of The Graduate in Melbourne.

Claire's screen credits include the web series Event Zero (Directed by Shane Abbess), Wonderland (Channel Ten) and the Warner Brothers Feature San Andreas, which will premiere in May 2015.

River marks Claire's debut as a playwright.

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