Cloudstreet at Lane Cove

Lane Cove Theatre Company’s brings Nick Enright and Justin Monjo’s adaptation of the Tim Winton novel Cloudstreet  at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville from August 11 – 27.

An epic tale of two Australian families dealing with heartbreak and joy over the course of two decades  following the war, united by their co-habitation of a sprawling Perth house with a haunted past.

It reflects a contemporary Australian mythology, with very Australian settings and characters, but is universal in its themes. Families are challenged by crises, fractured, and come back together again, but the play never forgets to show the humour and camaraderie between brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, parents and children.

The house at number one Cloud Street is a great continent where two damaged clans collide. The two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—are as contrasting as the Australia they inhabit. Teetotallers and tipplers, workhorses or wastrels, fate makers versus chance chasers. But really, they’re two sides of the same coin; one that was tossed during World War II and remained in motion for decades. The power of this staggering Australian saga is more haunting than the ghosts who speak out from  the walls. It’s more elusive than the serial killer who prowls their neighbourhood. It’s transcendent, like the Lambs and the Pickles themselves, whose lives and loves live on today.

Director Ryan Whitworth-Jones says, “Cloudstreet by Winton emphasises our distinctive position globally and presents the potential for a more robust identity—one that allows Indigenous cultural knowledge and Western culture to coexist harmoniously, mutually influencing and engaging with each other.”

Performance rights for CLOUDSTREET exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd.

11-27 August 2023 at The Performance Space @ St Aidan's
1 Christina Street, Longueville
Tickets $30 / $25 conc / $23 groups 10+ / add $10 cheeseplate/ $8 dessertplate

Online booking https://www.trybooking.com/CDBZL

Photographs by Jim Crew