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Breaking the Castle at Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Dates: (2/24/2023 - 3/4/2023 )

Theatre:

Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Presented by QPAC in association with Oombarra Productions

Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Brisbane QLD 4101
Brisbane,Queensland

Phone: 136 246

Tickets: $35 - $45

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I tried dying and it didn’t work… I might as well try living now.

Struggling actor David can’t get enough, of anything. Alcohol, drugs, women, gambling – whatever it takes to escape the bark of the black dog. Bouncing from audition to audition as he battles his debilitating mental health issues and descends into a world of addiction, he is consumed by an overwhelming feeling of never belonging anywhere. Days and nights are lived through a thick haze of drugs, alcohol and Shakespeare’s soliloquies. This bender could be his last, but he doesn’t care – there are worse things than death.

Then David is thrown an unlikely lifeline. Finding himself in the mountains of South-East Asia he is offered a chance at redemption – but he will need to confront his inner demons, traumas and secrets long buried.

Visceral, fierce, funny and uplifting Breaking the Castle is a gripping tale with a powerful performance from creator Peter Cook as a man yearning for connection.

Directed by stage and screen Director Leah Purcell (The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson), and told with a bucket load of laughs, this is an exquisitely rendered story of hope, belonging, and finding a way to be in this world.


Ages: 15 years and older.



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