Sydney Theatre Company's Rough Draft #32 'Lethal Indifference'

Sydney Theatre Company's latest Rough Draft, Lethal Indifference, culminates in a free, one-off showing on Friday 18 November at 6.30pm in Wharf 2.

During a week-long creative development, winner of the 2010 PatRick White Playwrights Award playwright Anna Barnes will work with STC's Artistic Director Kip Williams and actress Emily Barclay to develop this early draft script and begin to sketch scenes that will form the foundations of her play Lethal Indifference.

Lethal Indifference looks to explore Australia's domestic violence 'epidemic'. Told from the perspective of the author whose day job is in a family violence community service, it is a meditation on an issue that is quietly understood by women and yet publically misunderstood and misrepresented. As her work exposes her to a deluge of stories of abuse, the author contemplates how complicit we are as a community in a system that makes women vulnerable and protects perpetrators.

STC's Rough Drafts support the development of new works by providing artists with opportunities to experiment and grow new ideas. Writers and directors are given access to rehearsal space, actors and creatives and dramaturgical support. They may use the week and resources to embark on something currently unscripted or they might choose to develop a script that is already complete in draft form.

Barnes, Williams and Barclay will present the results of their week-long Rough Draft process in a free public showing on Friday 18 November at 6.30pm in Wharf 2.

For further information: Katherine Stevenson (9250 1705 kstevenson@sydneytheatre.com.au)

Box Office: (02) 9250 1777, sydneytheatre.com.au Tickets: Free

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