The Maintenance Room
Event Date: 07/11/2013, 07:30 pm
NEW AUSTRALIAN PLAY OFFERS HOPE AND TRUST IN THE FACE OF DESPAIR
Sydney is about to see new play about friendship and self-discovery… on the edge.
Two strangers who meet atop a tall building must make a leap of faith or embrace their own despair in a new Australian play which makes its debut in Sydney in November.
Life has become unbearble for Edward. He's lost all trust in the human race, and decides to end it all by jumping off a tall building. An old multi-storey factory due for demolition seems ideal, so he makes his way up to a maintenance room on the roof. When he arrives he accidentally disturbs a homeless man who has taken up residence there, and who angrily demands to know what Edward is up to.
What follows as these two explore - sometimes dramatically, sometimes hilariously - each other’s reasons for being on top of the building will determine whether they both live or die. Featuring actors Kim Knuckey and Lynden Jones, this is a story about trust in others and the struggle to regain it after all faith has been stripped away.
Award-winning Sydney playwright Gerry Greenland was inspired to write this play after witnessing the devastating effect that loss had on a friend.
“People fall into very dark places when they lose faith in themselves, in others and in life itself,” Greenland says,
“Rational thinking disappears, and existence itself seems pointless. Regaining hope and trust in something, or someone, however small, is the life-raft that can rescue them from disaster. I wanted to write a play that would make audiences laugh, yet still engage them to share that dark journey, and to help them hear in others that hidden cry for a life-raft.”
The Maintenance Room plays at the Newtown’s King Street Theatre from 7 to 30 November.
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King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
