4000 Miles at Castle Hill
4000 Miles spotlights the relationship between Leo and his grandmother Vera, as it bumps and veers over the span of one month.
Castle Hill Theatre’s production of the play, written by Amy Herzog and based on her own feisty grandmother, directed by Jewell Johnson, opens at the Pavilion Theatre, Castle Hill, NSW on April 10, 2015.
The play opens with Leo turning up at Vera’s West Village apartment in New York in the early morning hours after he has ridden from Seattle with a friend. He arrives exhausted and scruffy and surprises Vera out of bed and without her dentures.
This is play about two people who are dealing with their own personal frailties. Leo is in emotional turmoil and is secretly suffering. He is estranged from his mother and has not called home in weeks. Vera lives a solitary life and has survived to 91. She is living with the sad reality of experiencing the deaths of her friends and her contemporaries. The two have a complicated relationship that draws them into a wonderful array of connections as they spend time together. They fight, confide in one another, share their ideology and smoke some pot. Leo is withdrawing away from a past event and the fact that his girlfriend Bec no longer wants to be in a relationship with him. In his search to conquer his emotional fragility he picks up Amanda in a bar to hopefully drown his reality in some casual sex.
4000 Miles is a heart-warming story that is filled with moments of humour. The play draws you into the lives of all the characters as they share their experiences and emotions. As they all eventually share their soul-barring memories, 4000 Miles gently taps into our own curiosity about what is to be human.
Tickets can be booked online at www.paviliontheatre.org.au.
4000 Miles opens on Friday 10 April 2015 and runs until Saturday 2 May 2015. Tickets price: $21/$26.
Images: (Left to right) Jennifer Leslie (Vera), Cameron Hutt (Leo) and Kate Gandy ( Bec) & (Left to right) Jennifer Leslie (Vera) and Cameron Hutt (Leo).
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