Joh Hartog Productions Presents FEFU AND HER FRIENDS
By: Stephi Wild Oct. 22, 2018
Joh Hartog Productions Presents Fefu and Her Friends at The Bakehouse Theatre.
"FEFU AND HER FRIENDS" is an Off-Broadway favourite, winning the writer Maria Irene Fornes one of her six Obie Awards.
With true appreciation of this innovative writing, Director Joh Hartog gives it an equally extraordinary airing at the Bakehouse Theatre. He has decided to use every single one of the rooms at the Bakehouse to invite the audience into Fefu's lounge room, garden, kitchen, bedroom and library. Never mind the staff trying to run the place and sacrificing their offices, kitchens, extra bar rooms, dressing rooms, Mainstage and Studio theatres. We happily do so, all for the sake of art and innovation!
This is the Bakehouse behind the scenes as you have never seen it before! Join the tour! Sneak into those hidden rooms with their doors shut that you have always wondered about. Find out just what is going on there.
It is around 1935 in South Australia. Women have long since been given the vote and they are allowed to sit in parliament. But it takes more than that to enable women to inhabit an emancipated position in the world.
In Fefu and her Friends eight women meet in Fefu's house to make final arrangements for a fundraiser about education. They talk about their lives and examine their limited development in a world largely ruled by men.
This sensitive, wise, but above all sparkling and life affirming play portrays a time between the first suffragettes and the fully fledged feminism of the seventies. It gives us eight fairly ordinary, but fascinating women who are all trying to develop an enhanced place in the world for themselves beyond what is regarded as the norm.
Fefu in particular is ready to break some boundaries, but is fearful of the consequences. What is she willing to lose to achieve a change?
Credits:
Written by: Maria Irene Fornes
Directed by: Joh Hartog
Featuring: Krystal Brock, Megan Donald, Lisa K Lanzi, Carol Lawton, Mikayla Lynch, Josephine Pugh, Rahimah Russell, Amanda Phillips.
Preview:
Wednesday, 21 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Opening night:
Thursday, 22 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Season:
Friday, 23 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Saturday, 24 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Wednesday, 28 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Thursday, 29 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Friday, 30 November 2018 - 8:00pm
Saturday, 1 December 2018 - 8:00pm
BUY TICKETS HERE http://www.bakehousetheatre.com/shows/fefu-and-her-friends-0
Comments
Videos